Testing (RSpec) with Devise's confirmable module

Question

It\'s my understanding that Rails\' testing environment is torn down and rebuilt before each test...so how do I test a controller that requires that a user be logged in and

Answer 1

For fabrication gem it is

Fabricator(:user) do
  after_build { |user| user.confirm! }
end

Answer 2

for latest FactoryGirl version:

FactoryGirl.define do

  factory :confirmed_user, :parent => :user do
    after(:create) { |user| user.confirm! }
  end

end

Answer 3

Try stubbing active?

@user = Factory.create(:user)
@user.stub(:active?).and_return(true)
sign_in @user

You might also need to stub confirmed?, I'm not too familiar with Devise.

Answer 4

If you are using factory_girl to generate your models, you can use after_create to confirm each new user.

Factory.define :confirmed_user, :parent => :user do |f|
  f.after_create { |user| user.confirm! }
end

Answer 5

For Devise 4.2 it's now confirm (not confirm!).

Source

4.2.0 - 2016-07-01

Remove the Devise::Models::Confirmable#confirm! method, use confirm instead.

Code below also prevents mailers from being generated thanks to after(:build) vs after(:create) for setting confirmed_at

FactoryGirl.define do
  factory :user do
    after(:build)   { |u| u.skip_confirmation_notification! }
    after(:create)  { |u| u.confirm }
    ...
  end
end

Answer 6

In your test environment ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method should be set to :test, which means that these emails will not be sent out. If this setting is set to something else such as smtp by way of a configuration in say config/environments.rb, then emails will be sent out.

If that setting's already there, then to use the User object (as in, to be actually able to log in) you'll need to call confirm! on it:

user = User.first
user.confirm!