Question

I am developing an API and wanted to test the login method. The spec for the API located in spec/api/ instead of spec/controller. I am using rspec-rails. Now I have a spec like this:

describe "/api/login.json", :type => :api do
  let(:user) { FactoryGirl.create(:user) }

  context "when called with correct credentials" do
    before(:all) do
      post "/api/v1/passenger/login.json",:email => user.email, :password => user.password
    end

    it "responds with HTTP 200" do
      last_response.status.should == 200
    end

    it "sets the session correctly" do
      session[:user_id].should == user.id # <-- ### Here ###
    end
  end
end

It fails. session is nil. How do I access the session variable?

I guess I have to include some stuff in my RSpec.configure block?

Answer 1

After approx. 200 hours of googling, I found an answer myself.

It boils down to these magic words:

module FoobarHelper
  def session
    last_request.env['rack.session']
  end
end

RSpec.configure do |c|
  c.include FoobarHelper, :type => :api
end