How can I test basic auth in my rspec controller examples?

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I have some rails controllers that use authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic -- how can I set the user/pass in my rspec examples?

I'm surprised to not have been able to find this elsewhere on the web, so maybe I'm using the wrong terms? -- I found some very old things, or what seems to me like very complicated things. Seems like at this point rspec would either have direct support for this, or a tidy idiomatic solution.

Did you see this one? stackoverflow.com/questions/8013770/… — zetetic
– zetetic, Commented Feb 25, 2013 at 21:59

John Bachir · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-25 23:08:15Z

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this works. thanks to @zetetic pointing me in the right direction

before do
  @request.env["HTTP_AUTHORIZATION"] = "Basic " + Base64::encode64("username:password")
end

answered Feb 25, 2013 at 23:08

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swrobel Over a year ago

Using string interpolation: @request.env['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'] = "Basic #{Base64::encode64('username:password')}"

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