Ruby on Rails functional test with Devise authentication

Question

I\'m searching for a solution for a weird problem. I have a controller, that needs authentication (with the devise gem). I added the Devise TestHelpers but i can\'t get it worki

Answer 1

Are you using Devise with confirmable? In this case, create is not enough and you need to confirm the user with @user.confirm!

Second, why do you create the user in the functional test? Declare your users in the fixture like this (confirmed_at if you require confirmation only):

test/fixtures/users.yml:

user1: 
id: 1
email: user1@test.eu
encrypted_password: abcdef1
password_salt:  efvfvffdv
confirmed_at: <%= Time.now %>

and sign them in in your functional tests with:

sign_in users(:user1)

Edit: I just saw, that in my app the Devise-Testhelpers are declared in test/test-helpers.rb and I don't know if this makes a difference, maybe you want to try:

ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = "test"
require File.expand_path('../../config/environment', __FILE__)
require 'rails/test_help'

class ActionController::TestCase
  include Devise::TestHelpers
end

class ActiveSupport::TestCase
  # Setup all fixtures in test/fixtures/*.(yml|csv) for all tests in alphabetical order.
  #
  # Note: You'll currently still have to declare fixtures explicitly in integration tests
  # -- they do not yet inherit this setting
  fixtures :all

  # Add more helper methods to be used by all tests here...
end