Rspec and HTTP_AUTHORIZATION

gistfile1.txt

# I'm trying to add HTTP BasicAuth to an existing Rails API (not app - no pages or views).
#
# At http://blog.matthodan.com/how-to-test-something-with-rspec
# (and a thousand or so other places)
# I find that it's easy to test this:

describe SourcesController do
  describe "#index" do
    before :each do
      @request.env['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'] 
        = "Basic #{ActiveSupport::Base64::encode64('user:secret')}"
    end

    it "should have this action" do
  …

# Which sounds just swell, guys, but I get


     Failure/Error: @request.env['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'] = "Basic #{ActiveSupport::Base64::encode64('user:secret')}"
     NoMethodError:
       undefined method `env' for nil:NilClass
     # ./spec/integration/xxxx/subscriptions_spec.rb:14:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

# so, apparently @request is nil. I tried "request" as well, same result.
# perhaps there's been some massive reorganization of the RSPEC test case classes?
# pp self.class.ancestors, as of the line before the unhappy nil, is

[RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_6::Nested_1,
 RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_6]

Oh, also possibly useful:

gem list | grep rspec
rspec (2.6.0)
rspec-core (2.6.4)
rspec-expectations (2.6.0)
rspec-mocks (2.6.0)
rspec-rails (2.6.0)

Another, similar, bloggage puts the request.env[] voodoo between the two "describe" levels. self.class.ancestors at that point is:

[Class,
Module,
ActiveSupport::Dependencies::ModuleConstMissing,
Object,
PP::ObjectMixin,
ActiveSupport::Dependencies::Loadable,
FactoryGirl::Syntax::Vintage,
Nori::CoreExt::Object,
Wasabi::CoreExt::Object,
JSON::Ext::Generator::GeneratorMethods::Object,
RSpec::Core::SharedExampleGroup,
RSpec::Core::DSL,
Kernel,
BasicObject]

… but I get the same "undefined method `env' for nil:NilClass" failure

It's been suggested to me that "request.env" is now spelled "ENV".

Hi @jrep, I'm facing the same issue in my tests when running with the saucelabs gem, about ENV did it work for you?

No, ENV didn't do it for me. Here's what did:

In spec/controllers/resource.rb:
require 'integration'
describe ResourceController do
include BasicAuthHelper
before do
http_login(organization, user, pw)
end
…
end

in spec/support/integration.rb:
module BasicAuthHelper
def http_login(organization, user, pw)
request.env['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'] = ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Basic.encode_credentials(user,pw)
end
end

That is, inventing a top-level module BasicAuthHelper, in order to get the namespaces right, seemed to be the trick.