Question

I’d like to test if my Rails controller sets a valid options (in this case path) for cookie. How could I do it with RSpec?

My code:

#Controller
def action
  #(...)
  cookies[:name] = { value:cookie_data,
                     path: cookie_path }
  #(...)
end

#spec 
it "sets cookie path" do
  get 'action'
  #I'd like do to something like that
  response.cookies['name'].path.should == '/some/path' 
end

Answer 1

I’ve found a solution, but it seems to be a kind of hacking. I wonder if there is a cleaner way to do it.

it "sets cookie path" do
  get 'action'
  match = response.header["Set-Cookie"].match(/path=(.*);?/)
  match.should_not be_nil
  match[1].should == '/some/path'
end