devise "user_signed_in?" method in rspec

Question

I have a controller action which uses devise's "user_signed_in?" as a condition. The action looks like this:

 def show           
   if user_signed_in?
     #do stuff
   end
 end

But when I am testing this action in RSpec, the tests are failing because the code inside the if block never gets executed. Is there any way to stub the "user_signed_in?" method?

Answer 1

The code is not executed because the user is probably not signed in. To sign in a devise user in rspec, have this in spec/support/controller_macros.rb.

module ControllerMacros
    def login_user
      before(:each) do
        @request.env["devise.mapping"] = Devise.mappings[:user]
        user = FactoryGirl.create(:user)
        user.confirm! #if you are using the "confirmable" module
        sign_in user
      end
    end
end

In spec/rails_helper.rb have this:

RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.include Devise::Test::ControllerHelpers, :type => :controller
  config.extend ControllerMacros, :type => :controller
end

Then in your controller spec:

describe MyController do 
  login_user
  ....
end