Question

I’m trying to test for cookies in my request spec:

require 'spec_helper'

describe "Cookies"
  it "should set correctly" do
    request.cookies['foo'] = 'bar'
  end
end

But this gives me undefined method 'cookies' for nil:NilClass. How do I fix this?

Answer 1

The request object will be nil inside your test case until you make an http request using one of the methods get, post, delete, put, etc.

For example, your code would work if you had preceded request.cookies['foo'] = 'bar' with get root_path.