Mocks aren't working with RSpec and Devise

Question

I'm working on a Rails 3 web app at the moment with RSpec 2 and we're using Devise for authentication. One (and soon many) of our controllers require the user to be logged in. I know Devise provides the sign_in test helper, but can it be used with an RSpec or Mocha mock object?

I originally tried @user = mock_model(User) where user is the Devise class. This wouldn't work with sign_in :user, @user as get 'index' would redirect to the sign in form.

Does anyone have any experience testing with Devise and can help?

Answer 1

We had a similar problem, but using Factory Girl. We solved it like so:

In spec_helper.rb:

config.include Devise::TestHelpers, :type => :controller

In the controller spec (just a wrapper method):

def login_user(user)
    sign_in user
end

Then in each method you require, you can do:

login_user(Factory(:user))

... where you have defined a user object in factories.rb. Not sure if this will work with mocks though.