Stubbing Warden on Controller Tests

Question

I\'m having an issue with testing my controllers and using Warden.

All examples point at stubbing request.env[\'warden\']. This causes issues in my cont

Answer 1

Despite many examples telling you to implement Warden through env['warden'] in your Rails app. It seems the correct way to access it through request.env['warden'].

It found this out by raising env in my controllers during tests, and this always came out nil.

It seems in Warden, https://github.com/hassox/warden/blob/master/lib/warden/proxy.rb#L13 There is an accessor for the rack environment, which won't exist in test mode due to the absence of Rack in controller tests. Please someone check this.

So when stubbing request.env in RSpec, your implementation needs to point at request.env.

It seems a necessary evil in my mind. But if there is anyone with a good explanation or work around, I'd love to continue this discussion.

Answer 2

I wrote controller test helpers for Warden.

http://kentaroimai.com/articles/1-controller-test-helpers-for-warden