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POTesting Rails app with Rspec using declarative authorizations helper method permitted_to?
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copied!<p>I am trying to test a rails engine with rspec where I am using the declarative_authorization gem to manage the roles for my users. UserSessions are managed by Authlogic.</p> <p>In my test I call a helper method which is rendering a view partial. In that partial i am using the <code>permitted_to? do ... end</code> method of declarative authorization.</p> <p>My expection is to get a response with a html string.</p> <p>The problem is that <code>permitted_to?</code> throws an Exception:</p> <p>undefined local variable or method `current_user' for #</p> <p>I took a closer look into declarative auths AuthorizationInController module (which requires the authorization.rb where the current_user method is defined as a class method) and found that the current_user method is getting called from options_for_permit which is called from permitted_to?.</p> <p>When I change <code>:user => current_user</code> in the options_for_permit method to <code>:user => Authorization.current_user</code> the exception is gone and my test passes.</p> <p>I am not a very well skilled Rubyist, so i dont know if that is the correct way of fixing that problem. The method permitted_to? is a fundamental method of declarative_authorization, so I dont know why it is working when normally using it and not when using it here in the test.</p> <p>my questions:</p> <ul> <li>Is this a bug in declarative authorization?</li> <li>Could my fix make impact on other areas?</li> </ul> <p>Hopefully waiting for your response...</p> <p>Thanks robin</p> <p>EDIT:</p> <p>I just noticed that my application does not work correctly anymore with my changes in development environment.</p> <p>Authorization.current_user is now an Authorization::AnonymousUser while current_user is a valid User with the admin role...</p> <p>Stubbing current_user does not work, that was what i tried at first.</p> <p>My test code:</p> <pre><code>it "should render the main navi for all core modules" do main_navi = YAML.load_file(File.join(Rails.root, "../..", "config/alchemy", "modules.yml")) helper.stub(:alchemy_modules).and_return(main_navi) Authorization.current_user = Factory(:admin_user) helper.admin_main_navigation.should have_selector('a.main_navi_entry') end </code></pre> <p>view code which should get rendered:</p> <pre><code><%- permitted_to?( :index, :admin ) do -%> ... <%- end -%> </code></pre>

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