Comments on: The login! test helper for Restful Authentication and Machinist

By: Kiran

Kiran — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:25:42 +0000

This was super helpful thanks for the information. I tried this with machinist and did find a couple things different from the default install of restful_auth

1. The blueprint has username and my user had login instead of username so my blueprint looks like the below

User.blueprint do
login
email
password ‘monkey’
password_confirmation “#{password}”
activation_code nil
end

Also here is the sham definition for people that care:

Sham.define do
email { Faker::Internet.email }
login { Faker::Internet.user_name }
end

The reason for the setting the activation_code to nil is so that my tests dont generate the emails that happen as observers during signup. I had to change the default user observer that restful_auth puts in to be the following

def after_create(user)
UserMailer.deliver_signup_notification(user) if user.active?
end

Hope that helps others get a passing set of tests

By: Trevor

Trevor — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:23:20 +0000

Keith, I’m not doing anything special, I don’t think: http://gist.github.com/137125

By: Keith

Keith — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:29:13 +0000

Would you mind sharing the code inside your User.make, i’m curious how you deal with Machinist and the password/salt hashes.

thanks

By: zerohalo

zerohalo — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:50:08 +0000

I like.

By: Mischa

Mischa — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:40:31 +0000

Trevor, in this case, I definitely agree that it’s clarifying to have a bang here.

Maybe the rule for idiom should be like this:

Use a bang if:

An activerecord model is changing something in the db.

A activerecord model is saving or failing (e.g. create!, save!)

A method is changing session state in a test.

Hmm, what else?

By: ZDZolton

ZDZolton — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:14:48 +0000

YTMND!!