Rspec Rails 3.1 Integration test. How to send post request headers for mobile, http basic authentication and JSON?

Question

I have an RSPEC integration test for a Rails 3.1 app that needs to test an api for a mobile client by issuing a POST request with JSON params and a mobile header that needs

Answer 1

I figured out what I needed to do

post("scores", {:score => {:mobile_user_id => @mobile_user.id, :points => 50, :time_taken => 7275}}.to_json,
       {"HTTP_USER_AGENT" => "Mobile", 'HTTP_AUTHORIZATION' => get_basic_auth, 'HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE' => "application/json"}

Obviously the "mobile" user agent is not needed to test normal json requests.

Hope that helps someone