Functional testing with Rails and Devise. What to put in my fixtures?

Question

Hi I'm wanting to do some functional testing of my Rails 3 app that uses Devise and CanCan.

In my User model I have the users age, I want to test that a user can only visit a certain page if they are:

1. Logged in
2. Over 35

I have seen in the Devise document that I can use: *sign_in* and I have put it in my tests and it appears to work - the test doesn't error because I have:

include Devise::TestHelpers

in my *test_helper.rb*

When I take it out my test does error because *sign_in* is not defined. So it is not a helper problem.

When I run the test and check to see if span#loggedin has one occurrence the test fails because there is 0 occurrences. span#loggedin only appears *if user_signed_in?*

What do I need to put in my fixtures or tests to create a test user who is also a fully signed up user (confirmed etc)?

View Code:

<% if user_signed_in? %>
     <span id="loggedin">User is signed in</span>
     User age is <span id="age"><%= current_user.age.to_s %></span>
<% end %>

Test Code:

test "should get index" do
    sign_in :one
    get :index
    assert_response :success
    assert_select 'span#loggedin', :count => 1
end

Fixture:

one:
 email: [email protected]
 age: 36

It works okay in development when I manually login but I'm hoping to automate it all - the point of testing really!!

Answer 1

Solution for Devise pre 3.2.0

I think this might be what you are looking for:

User.new.send(:password_digest, 'password')

It works when the salt is nil.

And therefore in your fixture you can do this:

one:
  email: '[email protected]'
  encrypted_password: <%= User.new.send(:password_digest, 'password') %>

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Solution for Devise versions 3.2.0 to 3.5.0

At Devise 3.2.0, a method was created precisely for this purpose (@Inkling update). For these versions the encrypted_password should be defined like this:

encrypted_password: <%= Devise.bcrypt(User, 'password') %>

where User is the class of your user model.

Note that this only applies if you're using the default encryption algorithm (bcrypt).

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Solution for Devise versions 3.5.1 and above

As Katarzyna has pointed out: Device.bcrypt has been deprecated in version 3.5.1. From that version on, the encrypted_password should be defined like this:

encrypted_password: <%= Devise::Encryptor.digest(User, 'password') %>