Question

What I what to accomplish is to use (rely on) current_user method while defining Cucumber steps. I’m using Clearance in my project.

First of all I tried to use sign_in but it didn’t work (I guess Cucumber World doesn’t know about Clearance methods…).

So how do I make Cuckes recognize current_user and sign_in/sign_out methods?

Answer 1

Your Cucumber features should be driving your application through the public user interface. Something like:

Given /^I am signed in as "([^\"]*)"%/ do |username|
  visit 'sign_in'
  fill_in 'Username', :with => username
  click 'Sign In'
end

Since the current_user method isn’t available to the browser, you shouldn’t be using it in your spec.

You could fake it in your steps by storing @current_user in the above step and then providing an attribute reader for it.