Testing a Sinatra application that uses session

Question

How to test Sinatra application which is using session?

get "/", {}, {\'rack.session\' =>  { \'foo\' => \'blah\' } }

This cod

Answer 1

It looks like the problem is actually to have enable :sessions activated.

You have to deactivate this setting in order to be available to overwrite the session.

The solution could be:

# my_test.rb (first line, or at least before you require your 'my_app.rb')
ENV['RACK_ENV'] = 'test'

# my_app.rb (your sinatra application)
enable :sessions  unless test?

# my_test.rb (in your test block)
get '/', {}, 'rack.session' => { :key => 'value' }

In the other hand to be able to check any session change that the action is expected to do we can send not a hash to the rack.session but a pointer to a hash so we can check after the action call if the hash has changed:

# my_test.rb (in your test block)
session = {}
get '/', {}, 'rack.session' => session
assert_equal 'value', session[:key]