How to stub ApplicationController method in request spec

Question

I am needing to stub the response of a current_user method in an Rspec/capybara request spec. The method is defined in ApplicationController and is

Answer 1

None of the provided responses worked for me. As in @matt-fordam's original post, I have a request spec, not a controller spec. The test just renders the view without launching a controller.

I resolved this by stubbing the method on the view as described in this other SO post

view.stub(:current_user).and_return(etc)