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I am working on some Cucumber stories for a 'sign up' application which has a number of steps. Rather then writing a Huuuuuuuge story to cover all the steps at once, which would be bad , I'd rather work through each action in the controller like a regular user. My problem here is that I am storing the account ID which is created in the first step as a session variable, so when step 2, step 3 etc are visited the existing registration data is loaded. I'm aware of being able to access controller.session[..] within RSpec specifications however when I try to do this in Cucumber stories it fails

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! 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