Question

I’m trying to test a method I have in my application, but I don’t know how to unit test a method that is being protected from forgery, take a look at this:

    def index     @alumnos = Alumno.paginate :per_page => 20,        :page => params[:page], :order => :nombre      respond_to do |format|       format.html # index.html.erb       format.xml  { render :xml => @alumnos }     end   end 

In the index.html.erb I have this line:

<%= javascript_tag 'window._token = '#{form_authenticity_token}'' %> 

So, when I try to test it with a functional test, it seems that the session doesn’t have the secret work which will cause the test to fail, does anyone have experience testing this methods?

Answer 1

Here is one solution (or a workaround) : in your controllers/application.rb

   if RAILS_ENV =='test'     protect_from_forgery  :secret => 'write ur secret in config/environment.rb'    else  protect\_from_forgery    end