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

This has changed in recent versions of cucumber-rails (I am using 1.0.2).

cucumber-rails uses the Rack/Test driver by default, so if you have not changed that, the following instructions will work.

Create features/step_definitions/authorize.rb:

Given /^I am logged in as "([^\"]*)" with "([^\"]*)"$/ do |username, password|
  authorize username, password
end

Now you can use this in your features:

Given I am logged in as "admin" with "password"