Testing Devise session timeout with RSpec

Question

I'd like to customize the time period after which my Rails app will automatically end a user's session.

I found this question to give me exactly what I need, but I'd like to approach this through TDD. I've got a relatively solid test suite for the application, I'm just a little lost when it comes to testing if a user's session has expired, other than having a test sit there and wait for the session to expire after x.minutes have elapsed. Surely there's a better way.

I checked the Devise and Warden documentation for test helpers dealing with this and came up dry. Anyone have any tips?

Answer 1

How about stubbing user.timedout? to return true? Or, you could pass a custom time in your test that exceeds your custom timeout value, like user.timed_out?(31.minutes.ago).