Rails unit test assert_template failure

I have the following test: test/integration/authentication_test.rb:

require 'test_helper'

class AuthenticationTest < ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest

  def setup
@admin = users(:barry) # grab user from fixtures
  end

  test "trying to view a user before logging in" do
    get user_path(@admin)
    assert_template 'sessions/new'
    assert_not flash.empty?
    assert_select "div#error_explanation"
    assert_select "div.field_with_errors"
    assert_select "a[href=?]", logout_path, count: 0
    assert_not is_logged_in?
  end
end

The test fails with the following error:

FAIL["test_trying_to_view_a_user_before_logging_in", AuthenticationTest, 2.206536] test_trying_to_view_a_user_before_logging_in#AuthenticationTest (2.21s)
    expecting <"sessions/new"> but rendering with <[]>
    test/integration/authentication_test.rb:11:in `block in <class:AuthenticationTest>'

Relevant bits of the users_controller.rb:

class UsersController < ApplicationController

  before_action :logged_in_user, only: [:index, :show, :edit, :update, :destroy]

  def show
@user = User.find_by_callsign(params[:callsign])
    @page_name = "user_page"
    redirect_to root_url and return unless @user.  activated
end
  .
  .
end

sessions_helper.rb:

def logged_in_user
unless logged_in?
    store_location
flash[:danger] = "Please log in."
    redirect_to login_url
end
end

def logged_in?
  !current_user.nil?
end

In routes.rb:

get 'login', to: 'sessions#new'

I don’t understand why the test is failing. When I perform the steps manually it all works. Is there a known issue with assert_template? When I comment out assert_template 'sessions/new' in the test, it passes.

In log/test.log: it is indeed redirecting to the correct template (Redirected tohttp://www.example.com/dominos/newname). But it doesn’t have any ‘rendered’ lines. The last few lines of the failed test are:

Redirected to http://www.example.com/dominos/newname
Completed 302 Found in 21ms (ActiveRecord: 2.5ms)
  [1m[35m (0.4ms)[0m  SELECT COUNT(*) FROM "personas"
  [1m[36m (0.2ms)[0m  [1mROLLBACK[0m

In the test.log file for successful tests involving assert_template, there are various ‘Rendered’ lines following a redirect, for example:

Rendered personas/new.html.erb within layouts/application (2.0ms)

Is this perhaps part of why the test is failing? Why does the page not render?

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