Comments on: Two Shoulda best practices

By: RSpec: Shoulda Looked At It Sooner « A little story

RSpec: Shoulda Looked At It Sooner « A little story — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:28:39 +0000

[...] service call, his matchy library for the fancy session[:user_id].should assertion, and a macro I stole (logged_in_as) to easily setup authentication for controller tests. Nothing fancy, but I just like [...]

By: Mathieu Martin

Mathieu Martin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:07:01 +0000

I fixed the comment :-)

By: Mike Breen (hardbap)

Mike Breen (hardbap) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:49:48 +0000

hmm…the formatting got messed up but you can still see what I’m doing.

By: Mike Breen (hardbap)

Mike Breen (hardbap) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:48:31 +0000

Great post, thanks. After poking around the Shoulda code I ended up writing my macros like this:

# Sets the current person in the session from the person fixtures.
def logged_in_as(person, &block)
  context "logged in as #{person}" do
    setup do
      @request.session[:person] = people(person).id
    end

    merge_block(&block)
  end
end