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

I had to do this horrible hack to get it work worth headless and with javascript

Given /^I am logged in$/ do
 if page.driver.respond_to?(:basic_authorize)
   page.driver.basic_authorize('admin', 'password')
 else
   # FIXME for this to work you need to add pref("network.http.phishy-userpass-length", 255); to /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/defaults/pref/firefox.js
   page.driver.visit('/')
   page.driver.visit("http://admin:password@#{page.driver.current_url.gsub(/^http\:\/\//, '')}")
 end
end