Rails/Rspec Make tests pass with http basic authentication

Question

Here my http basic authentication in the application controller file (application_controller.rb)

before_filter :authenticate  protected  def authenticate   authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic do |username, password|     username == "username" && password == "password"     end end 

and the default test for the index action of my home controller (spec/controllers/home_controller_spec.rb)

require 'spec_helper'  describe HomeController do  describe "GET 'index'" do   it "should be successful" do     get 'index'     response.should be_success   end end 

Test doesn't run because of the authentication method. I could comment "before_filter :authenticate" to run them but I would like to know if there is way to make them worked with the method.

Thank you!

Answer 1

Update (2013): Matt Connolly has provided a GIST which also works for request and controller specs: http://gist.github.com/4158961

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Another way of doing this if you have many tests to run and don't want to include it everytime (DRYer code):

Create a /spec/support/auth_helper.rb file:

module AuthHelper   def http_login     user = 'username'     pw = 'password'     request.env['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'] = ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Basic.encode_credentials(user,pw)   end   end 

In your test spec file:

describe HomeController do   render_views    # login to http basic auth   include AuthHelper   before(:each) do     http_login   end    describe "GET 'index'" do     it "should be successful" do       get 'index'       response.should be_success     end   end  end 

Credit here