# Testing controller

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/testing-controller/45120>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [August 13, 2009, 11:30am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/testing-controller/45120 "2009-08-13T11:30:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![11175](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/8edcca/32.png) [@11175](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/11175)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 11:30am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/testing-controller/45120/1 "2009-08-13T11:30:44Z")

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Hi Jim Burgess

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;You can do same also like

user @request.env['HTTP\_AUTHORIZATION'] = ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Basic.encode\_credentials(user.email,"password")

And you can move it to a function as I said above

Sijo