Question

For a particular rails unit test(of type PerformanceTest), I need to GET a page which requires signing in the user.

my signIn function is implemented via putting the user in the cookies object:

 def sign_in(user)
   cookies.permanent.signed[:saved_user] = [user.id, salt]
   current_user = user;
 end

but when I try to call this sign_in method in unit tests and performance tests I get an error saying object “cookies” is not found. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

I eventually figured out how to fix this. In the unit test instead of calling

sign_in @test_user

just call

@controller.sign_in @test_user