Cookies do not persist in Rspec on rails 3.1

Question

This is a problem with the cookies collection in a controller spec in the following environment:

• rails 3.1.0.rc4
• rspec 2.6.0
• rspec-rails 2.6.

Answer 1

This is how I solved this:

def sign_in(user)
 cookies.permanent.signed[:remember_token] = [user.id, user.salt]
 current_user = user
 @current_user = user
end

def sign_out
 current_user = nil
 @current_user = nil
 cookies.delete(:remember_token)
end

def signed_in?
 return !current_user.nil?
end

For some reason you have to set both @current_user and current_user for it to work in Rspec. I'm not sure why but it drove me completely nuts since it was working fine in the browser.

Answer 2

The extra lines above are not necessary. I found that simply calling the self.current_user = user setter method can automatically update the instance variable. For some reason, calling it without self doesn't call the setter method.

Here's my code without the extra lines:

def sign_in(user)
  cookies.permanent.signed[:remember_token] = [user.id, user.salt]
  self.current_user = user
end

def sign_out
  cookies.delete(:remember_token)
  self.current_user = nil
end

def current_user=(user)
  @current_user = user
end

I still don't know why, maybe an Rspec bug

Answer 3

Ran into the same problem. Try using @request.cookie_jar from your tests.