No method uid for Hash error when testing omniauth login with cucumber

Question

I am trying to write integration tests that involve signing in using Omniauth, specifically Twitter. The error I get whenever running the Cucumber test is this:

When I sign in with "Twitter" features/step_definitions/steps.rb:5 undefined method uid' for #<Hash:0x007fa891f95830> (NoMethodError) ./app/models/user.rb:26:infrom_omniauth' ./app/controllers/omniauth_callbacks_controller.rb:4:in all' ./features/step_definitions/steps.rb:6:in/^I sign in with "(.*?)"$/' features/user_management.feature:15:in `When I sign in with "Twitter"'

Below is the code from my User model.

def self.from_omniauth(auth)
    user = where(twitter_uid: auth.uid).first || check_for_non_twitter_login(auth)
    user.twitter_oauth_token = auth.credentials.token
    user.twitter_oauth_secret = auth.credentials.secret
    user.save! if user.email != ""
    user
end

def self.create_from_omniauth(auth)
    create do |user|
      user.provider = auth.provider
      user.twitter_uid = auth.uid
      user.twitter_username = auth.info.nickname
      user.twitter_oauth_token = auth.credentials.token
      user.twitter_oauth_secret = auth.credentials.secret
    end
end

I tried changing how the uid value was accessed by changing the line in question to:

user = where(twitter_uid: auth['uid']).first || check_for_non_twitter_login(auth)

This got rid of that error and so I changed all of the mentions of data inside the auth hash to use the same method. This broke how the code worked in development (it didn't work at all) and the tests then threw up this error:

When I sign in with "Twitter" features/step_definitions/steps.rb:5 undefined method []' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError) ./app/models/user.rb:56:inblock in create_from_omniauth' ./app/models/user.rb:53:in create_from_omniauth' ./app/models/user.rb:38:incheck_for_non_twitter_login' ./app/models/user.rb:26:in from_omniauth' ./app/controllers/omniauth_callbacks_controller.rb:4:inall' ./features/step_definitions/steps.rb:6:in /^I sign in with "(.*?)"$/' features/user_management.feature:15:inWhen I sign in with "Twitter"'

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

Found a solution to this. Instead of using:

OmniAuth.config.mock_auth ...etc

I used:

OmniAuth.config.add_mock(:twitter, {"uid" => '12345', "credentials" => {"token" => "mytoken","secret" => "mysecret"} })

And now it all works.