Question

I’m trying to write a Cucumber scenario that requires me to have a logged in user – that would normally be quite simple but I’m only using OpenID authentication (curtosy of the authentication plugin). However after digging through the open_id_authentication plugins guts I’m not sure how I could achieve this within Cucumber.

Answer 1

I’ve figured out a way, if you place this in your features/support/env.rb:

ActionController::Base.class_eval do   private    def begin_open_id_authentication(identity_url, options = {})     yield OpenIdAuthentication::Result.new(:successful), identity_url, nil   end  end 

Then you can just do something like this in your appropriate step:

Given /^I am logged in as '(.*)'$/ do |name|   user = User.find_by_name(user)   post '/session', :openid_url => user.identity_url   # Some assertions just to make sure our hack in env.rb is still working   response.should redirect_to('/')   flash[:notice].should eql('Logged in successfully') end 

I’m just completely clobbering the open id auth for the cucumber features, obviously if I need instances where there is failed login I could do that based on the supplied identity_url.