HTTP basic auth for Capybara

Question

I'm writing some RSpec tests for my Rails 3 application and trying to switch from Webrat to Capybara. So far so good but the application uses HTTP basic auth to authorize my admin user, any idea how I can test that with Capybara?

Here is my current Webrat step:

it 'should authenticate for admin' do   basic_auth('user', 'secret')   visit '/admin'   response.status.should eql 200   response.status.should_not eql 401 end 

How do I do this with Capybara? Thanks!

Answer 1

I got it to work using page.driver.basic_authorize(name, password) instead

Update:

At the moment, after a Capybara upgrade, I'm using this pile of workarounds:

if page.driver.respond_to?(:basic_auth)   page.driver.basic_auth(name, password) elsif page.driver.respond_to?(:basic_authorize)   page.driver.basic_authorize(name, password) elsif page.driver.respond_to?(:browser) && page.driver.browser.respond_to?(:basic_authorize)   page.driver.browser.basic_authorize(name, password) else   raise "I don't know how to log in!" end 

Answer 2

The default Capybara driver, rack-test, has a basic_authorize method (with alias authorize) for Basic HTTP Auth, and digest_authorize for Digest HTTP Auth, here you can find them: https://github.com/brynary/rack-test/blob/master/lib/rack/test.rb

So you can do:

page.driver.browser.authorize 'login', 'password' 

Or you can write a simple helper for Basic HTTP Auth:

def basic_auth(user, password)   encoded_login = ["#{user}:#{password}"].pack("m*")   page.driver.header 'Authorization', "Basic #{encoded_login}" end