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

I had a similar issue (but using FactoryGirl, rather than Fixtures) and was able to resolve it by simply using FactoryGirl.create(:user) rather than FactoryGirl.build(:user).

Evidently, Devise requires the user to have been persisted to the Database, for everything to work properly.