HTTP Basic Authentication for Functional Tests

11Nov

HTTP Basic Authentication for Functional Tests

While I was trying to cover a controller with some tests, I faced a problem. The controller actions were protected by a filter that prompted the users for login via basic http authentication. I found a solution in rails code here, where it said you should do your get as follows.

get("/notes", nil, :authorization => ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Basic.encode_credentials(users(:x).name, users(:x).password))

This didn't work for me where basic http authentication required sending the encoded credentials in the request headers, while the previous get request sent the authorization credentials in the session.

I found the following code snippet, which allowed for setting request headers:

class ActionController::TestRequest
def set_header(name, value)
@env[name] = value
end
end

In my tests, I now write the following:

@request.set_header "HTTP_AUTHORIZATION", ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Basic.encode_credentials(users(:x).email, '0000') get :show, {:user_id => users(:x).id, :format => "rss"}

And it works like a charm!

Written By:

Ahmed Sobhi (http://humanzz.spaces.live.com)

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