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

Man, none of these solutions worked for me.

Pistos' solution came close and worked for feature specs with js: true but failed when headless.

This below solution works for me for both headless and js: true specs.

spec/support/when_authenticated.rb

RSpec.shared_context 'When authenticated' do
  background do
    authenticate
  end

  def authenticate
    if page.driver.browser.respond_to?(:authorize)
      # When headless
      page.driver.browser.authorize(username, password)
    else
      # When javascript test
      visit "http://#{username}:#{password}@#{host}:#{port}/"     
     end
  end

  def username
    # Your value here. Replace with string or config location
    Rails.application.secrets.http_auth_username
  end

  def password
    # Your value here. Replace with string or config location
    Rails.application.secrets.http_auth_password
  end

  def host
    Capybara.current_session.server.host
  end

  def port
    Capybara.current_session.server.port
  end
end

Then, in your spec:

feature 'User does something' do
  include_context 'When authenticated'

  # test examples
end