How to sign in a user using Devise from a Rails console?

Question

After loading the Rails console, how should I sign in a user?

Devise provides a test helper which can be used in tests and I've tried to use in console:

>> include Devise::TestHelpers >> helper.sign_in(User.first) 

But I get:

NoMethodError: undefined method `env' for nil:NilClass 

Anyway, I would like to use the real devise helper and not this test helper. Is there any way to achieve this?

Answer 1

Here's one way I was able to do it:

>> ApplicationController.allow_forgery_protection = false >> app.post('/sign_in', {"user"=>{"login"=>"login", "password"=>"password"}}) 

Then you can do:

 >> app.get '/some_other_path_that_only_works_if_logged_in'  >> pp app.response.body 

Answer 2

Here is another example which uses the csrf token, authenticates the user, and makes a POST/GET request.

# get csrf token app.get  '/users/sign_in' csrf_token = app.session[:_csrf_token]  # log in app.post('/users/sign_in', {"authenticity_token"=>csrf_token, "user"=>{"email"=>"foo", "password"=>"bar"}})  # get new csrf token, as auth user app.get '' csrf_token = app.session[:_csrf_token]  # make a POST request app.post '/some_request.json', {"some_value"=>"wee", "authenticity_token"=>csrf_token}  # make a GET request app.get '/some_other_request.json'