Question

I have the following step for a Cucumber scenario:

Given /^I am not logged in$/ do
  request.reset_session
  controller.instance_variable_set(:@_current_user, nil)
end

But when I run my Cucumber features, I get:

undefined method `reset_session' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)

My setup:

• rails 3.0.3
• cucumber-rails 0.3.2

Answer 1

Cucumber is intended to exercise the full stack. Given that, you generally don’t want to muck around with the internals at a lower level as you might with rspec.

Try something like this:

Given /^I am not logged in$/ do
  visit logout_path
end

This example uses Capybara’s visit method, so you’ll need to adjust accordingly, but this should give you the right idea.