HTTP basic auth for Capybara

Question

I'm writing some RSpec tests for my Rails 3 application and trying to switch from Webrat to Capybara. So far so good but the application uses HTTP basic auth to authorize my admin user, any idea how I can test that with Capybara?

Here is my current Webrat step:

it 'should authenticate for admin' do
  basic_auth('user', 'secret')
  visit '/admin'
  response.status.should eql 200
  response.status.should_not eql 401
end

How do I do this with Capybara? Thanks!

Answer 1

I got it to work using page.driver.basic_authorize(name, password) instead

Update:

At the moment, after a Capybara upgrade, I'm using this pile of workarounds:

if page.driver.respond_to?(:basic_auth)
  page.driver.basic_auth(name, password)
elsif page.driver.respond_to?(:basic_authorize)
  page.driver.basic_authorize(name, password)
elsif page.driver.respond_to?(:browser) && page.driver.browser.respond_to?(:basic_authorize)
  page.driver.browser.basic_authorize(name, password)
else
  raise "I don't know how to log in!"
end