Callback redirect not preserving session

Question

I have a scenario that works just fine when I am using real omniauth, but fails when I run it with the mock auth in cucumber/capybara.

In the callback, when I do sign_in @user, it successfully creates the user and logs in... current_user is set. But when I then do redirect_to request.env['omniauth.origin'] || '/', inside the action that follows, current_user is now nil.

I've confirmed via screenshots/pausing the browser that it's not working with the mock auth. The same error occurs in firefox and chrome drivers.

Any idea as to why this would be happening?

/features/support/env.rb:

Cucumber::Rails::Database.javascript_strategy = :truncation 

Scenario:

@javascript Scenario:     Given I am on the home page     When I press "Login"     And I should see "Login with Twitter" in the selector "#login-modal"     Given Omniauth returns a user with provider "twitter" and uid "1" and nickname "foo"         When I login with Twitter     Then I should be logged in as "foo" 

Step Definitions:

Given(/^Omniauth returns a user with provider "(.*?)" and uid "(.*?)" and nickname "(.*?)"$/) do |provider, uid, nickname|   OmniAuth.config.test_mode = true   OmniAuth.config.add_mock(provider.to_sym, {      :uid => uid,      :info => {        :name => nickname      }    }) end  Then(/^I should be logged in as "(.*?)"$/) do |nickname|   expect(page).to have_content(nickname) end 

Auth callback:

def twitter   @user = User.from_omniauth(request.env["omniauth.auth"]) # this works-- I get the mock   sign_in @user   puts ">> in auth callback: just signed in user #{current_user.id}"           redirect_to request.env['omniauth.origin'] || '/' end 

Controller:

def new   puts ">> in my_controller#new: current_user = #{current_user.id if current_user}" end 

Cucumber Output:

Given Omniauth returns a user with provider "twitter" and uid "1" and nickname "foo"  >> in auth callback: just signed in user 1 >> in my_controller#new: current_user = When I login with Twitter                                                                  Then I should be logged in as "foo"                                                     expected to find text "foo" in [redacted] (RSpec::Expectations::ExpectationNotMetError) 

Answer 1

You are getting the user and collecting it to new variable @user but while you are calling the sign_in method again you did initialize the new variable user with using(eg. @user)