Rspec Authorization in Rails

Question

I'm developing a rails API, using rails 4, and I want to test it. To do it, I am using Rspec framework.

My API has an authenticate method that is called like this:

class UsersController < ApplicationController
 # Token authentication
 before_action :set_user, except: [:index, :create]
 before_action :authenticate, except: [:index, :create]
 before_action :authenticate_admin, only: [:index, :create]

 ...
end

Then I have my UsersController Rspec:

describe UsersController do
 render_views
 describe "GET /users" do
  it "gets all users" do
   @request.env["AUTHORIZATION"] = "Token token=xxxxxxxxx"
   @request.env["HTTP_ACCEPT"] = "application/json"
   @request.env["CONTENT_TYPE"] = "application/json"
   get  :index
   response.status.should be(200)
  end
 end
end

When I execute the test, it gives me always the same:

 UsersController GET /users getting all users
 Failure/Error: response.status.should be(200)

   expected #<Fixnum:401> => 200
        got #<Fixnum:803> => 401
 ...

I use authenticate_or_request_with_http_token method to get token from headers.

If anyone can help me to find the method to skip before_action method or to set the Authentication header correctly I will be very grateful.

Thank you!

Answer 1

I finally solve the problem.

The error was that :

request.env["AUTHORIZATION"] 

must be

request.env["HTTP_AUTHORIZATION"]. 

Apart from that, I was getting a wrong token from a user that was not created in my test environment.

:)