HTTP basic auth for Capybara

Question

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 m

Answer 1

The default Capybara driver, rack-test, has a basic_authorize method (with alias authorize) for Basic HTTP Auth, and digest_authorize for Digest HTTP Auth, here you can find them: https://github.com/brynary/rack-test/blob/master/lib/rack/test.rb

So you can do:

page.driver.browser.authorize 'login', 'password'

Or you can write a simple helper for Basic HTTP Auth:

def basic_auth(user, password)
  encoded_login = ["#{user}:#{password}"].pack("m*")
  page.driver.header 'Authorization', "Basic #{encoded_login}"
end