[rspec-users] Cookies - how to set in controller specs?

[David Chelimsky]

On Jul 2, 2008, at 11:15 AM, Christopher Bailey wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:06 AM, David Chelimsky  
> <dchelimsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>>
>> This is just one of those goofy things in Rails testing. I'm not sure
>> the best way to make it easier in rspec without breaking existing
>> examples in the process. Regardless, here's how you interact with
>> cookies from an example:
>>
>> To set a cookie:
>>
>> request.cookies[:cookie_key] = CGI::Cookie.new('cookie_key',  
>> 'cookie value')
>
> When I do this, in order to get to this cookie in my controller code,
> I have to do
>
>  cookies[:cookie_key][:cookie_key]

Sorry Christopher - try this:

request.cookies[:cookie_key] = 'cookie value'

Cheers,
David

> Basically, it appears that what it does is assign that key a hash of
> its own.  That makes sense of course, as I realize a cookie is really
> a hash of name, value, path, expires, and so on.  However, it doesn't
> jive with the retrieval, as you shouldn't have to double reference it
> (which I believe is essentially the point of the [] method on
> ActionController::CookieJar and is not how things are documented).
>
> However, what's really behaving weird, is if I do:
>
>  cookies[:cookie_key] = "1234"
>
> Then, in my controller code, if I look at "cookies", it shows that
> cookies is a hash, and if I call .keys on it, it spits out
> ":cookie_key", and if I call .values on it, it says "1234", but if I
> then go and do cookies[:cookie_key], it gives me nil.
>
> Again, I have to suspect something weird going on with Rails test
> environment/RSpec, since all this works fine outside of tests.  Any
> suggestions on how to debug this further or what might be wrong?
>
> I should note I'm using Rails 2.1, and RSpec and rspec-rails from
> about a week ago (from GitHub).
>
>> To read a cookie
>>
>> response.cookies[:cookie_key].should == ["expected value"]
>>
>> or
>>
>> cookies[:cookie_key].should == ["expected value"]
>>
>> Rails provides a cookies object that is actually response.cookies, so
>> you don't *have* to reference it through the response object. I  
>> would,
>> however, as I've been known to try to set a cookie in an example  
>> using
>> cookies when I should have been using request.cookies. So I try to
>> keep them explicit.
>>
>> HTH,
>> David
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