I am using Rspec 2 and capybara and defined the basic integration test, i.e.
describe "EeRequisitions" do
describe "GET /ee_requisitions" do
it "works! (now write some real specs)" do
get ee_requisitions_path
response.status.should be(200)
end
end
end
Since the app uses HTTP basic authentication and since capybara says it includes Rack::Test, I expected that adding the line:
authorize 'user', 'password'
would handle it (I've since lost the stackoverflow post that told me that). Unfortunately it didn't - it kept throwing a 'method not found' error. I finally found the solution in a comment to this post: Rails/Rspec Make tests pass with http basic authentication where Matt Connelly pointed me to this gist: https://gist.github.com/mattconnolly/4158961 which finally solved my problem.
However, I'm still wondering why the Rack::Test approach failed as it seems to have worked for others.
