Rails: RSpec, Cucumber, Authlogic, and factory_girl

(原文连接：http://jjinux.blogspot.com/2009/07/rails-rspec-cucumber-authlogic-and.html)
Friday, July 17, 2009
Rails: RSpec, Cucumber, Authlogic, and factory_girl

After a day of work and a week of reading The RSpec Book, I got RSpec, Cucumber, Authlogic, and factory_girl to play nicely with each other. I can now test user registration, logging in, and logging out.

I can't possibly cover everything from scratch, but I'll cover some of the trickier integration points.

Setup Rails, RSpec, Cucumber, and Authlogic per their own documentation. I ended up with the following in both config/environments/test.rb and config/environments/cucumber.rb:

# There is some duplication between test.rb and cucumber.rb.
config.gem "cucumber", :lib => false, :version => ">=0.3.11"
config.gem "webrat", :lib => false, :version => ">=0.4.4"
config.gem "rspec", :lib => false, :version => ">=1.2.6"
config.gem "rspec-rails", :lib => 'spec/rails', :version => ">=1.2.6"
config.gem "thoughtbot-factory_girl", :lib => "factory_girl", :version => ">=1.2.2", :source => "http://gems.github.com"

I created a factory in test/factories/user.rb:

Factory.define :user do |u|
u.username 'john'
u.email '[e-mail]'
u.password 'funkypass'
u.password_confirmation 'funkypass'
u.first_name 'John'
u.last_name 'Smith'
u.billing_address "1 Cool St.\r\nBerkeley"
u.billing_state 'CA'
u.billing_zipcode '94519'
u.other_zipcode '28311'
u.phone '[phone]'
end

I created a Cucumber feature in features/user_sessions.feature:

Feature: User Sessions

So that I can blah, blah, blah
As a registered user
I want to log in and log out

Scenario: log in
Given I am a registered user
And I am on the homepage
When I login
Then I should see "Login successful!"
And I should see "Logout"

Scenario: log out
Given I am logged in
And I am on the homepage
When I follow "Logout"
Then I should see "Logout successful!"
And I should see "Register"
And I should see "Log In

To implement this, I created step definitions in features/step_definitions/user_sessions_steps.rb

def user
@user ||= Factory :user
end

def login
user
visit path_to("the homepage")
response.should contain("Log In")
click_link "Log in"
fill_in "Username", :with => "john"
fill_in "Password", :with => "funkypass"
click_button "Login"
response.should contain("Login successful!")
response.should contain("Logout")
end

Given /^I am a registered user$/ do
user
end

When /^I login$/ do
login
end

Given /^I am logged in$/ do
login
end

That's it.

Authlogic's testing documentation talks about stuff like:

require "authlogic/test_case"
...
include Authlogic::TestCase
...
setup :activate_authlogic
UserSession.create(users(:whomever)) # logs a user in

In theory, you should be able to log a user in using some code--without going through the login form. I worked on this for several hours, but I wasn't able to get it to work. I googled quite a bit, but I wasn't able to find anyone else who could get this to work (i.e. integrate RSpec, Cucumber, Authlogic, and factory_girl). It seems that everyone else came to the same conclusion I did--just force the tests to use the login form.
Posted by Shannon -jj Behrens at 11:27 AM
Labels: rails, ruby, testing, web