Question

I’m trying to test the authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic method using Cucumber and Capybara, but it doesn’t work.

Any suggestions?

Authorization Controller:

before_filter :authorize

def show
 flash[:notice] = 'Welcome back!'
end  

private

def authorize
 authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic do |username, password|
  username == "admin" && password == "password"
 end
end

Cucumber feature:

Scenario: Successful login
  When I log in as "admin" with "password"
  Then I should see "Welcome back!"

Cucumber step:

When /^I log in as "([^\"]*)" with "([^\"]*)"$/ do |username, password|
  visit authorization_path
  authorize username, password
end

Error message:

expected there to be content "Welcome back!" in "HTTP Basic: Access denied.\n" (RSpec::Expectations::ExpectationNotMetError)

I also have tried with the following command, but it doesn’t work either:

page.driver.browser.basic_authorize(username, password)

Answer 1

Ok, so – at what point is the information failing to get through. Try adding log/puts statements in appropriate locations to probe this.

When /^I log in as "([^\"]*)" with "([^\"]*)"$/ do |username, password|
  puts "got into the test-helper with: #{username.inspect} and #{password.inspect}"
  visit authorization_path
  authorize username, password
end


def authorize
  puts "in the authorize method before actually trying to authorize"
  authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic do |username, password|
    puts "inside authorize, trying to authenticate against: #{username.inspect} and #{password.inspect}"
    username == "admin" && password == "password"
  end
end

If you can see either one in the log/output then at least you’ll know that the
uername/password is getting to that point in the code