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Asked: 2026-05-20T17:24:39+00:00

So I was just trying to call a log_in method from user controller in

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So I was just trying to call a log_in method from user controller in the RSpec as

it "should get the index page" do
  @user = User.new({ :email => "employee@test.com" })
  log_in(@user)
  get 'index'
  response.should be_success
end

The result I got is like

1) EmployeesController GET 'index' should get the index page
   Failure/Error: log_in(user)
   NoMethodError:
     undefined method `log_in' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1:0x4ac0328>
   # ./spec/controllers/employees_controller_spec.rb:11:in `user_log_in'
   # ./spec/controllers/employees_controller_spec.rb:16:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

Can someone help me out? Thanks

Edited March 11th, 2011

Here is the log_in method which is in UserController

  def log_in(user)
    session[:current_user] = user.id
  end
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  1. Editorial Team

    If you want to call a method on the controller in an RSpec controller test, you could use the following.

    subject.send(:log_in,@user)

    It should call the method. I dont know if this is really a best practice. A better method would be to stub the logged_in method as BurmajaM suggested.

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