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POSession variables with Cucumber Stories
 

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    <p>I am working on some Cucumber stories for a 'sign up' application which has a number of steps.</p> <p>Rather then writing a Huuuuuuuge story to cover all the steps at once, which would be <em>bad</em>, I'd rather work through each action in the controller like a regular user. My problem here is that I am storing the account ID which is created in the first step as a session variable, so when step 2, step 3 etc are visited the existing registration data is loaded.</p> <p>I'm aware of being able to access <code>controller.session[..]</code> within RSpec specifications however when I try to do this in Cucumber stories it fails with the following error (and, I've also read somewhere this is an anti-pattern etc...):</p> <p><em>Using controller.session[:whatever] or session[:whatever]</em></p> <pre><code>You have a nil object when you didn't expect it! The error occurred while evaluating nil.session (NoMethodError) </code></pre> <p><em>Using session(:whatever)</em></p> <pre><code>wrong number of arguments (1 for 0) (ArgumentError) </code></pre> <p>So, it seems accession the session store isn't really possible. What I'm wondering is if it might be possible to (and I guess which would be best..):</p> <ol> <li>Mock out the session store etc</li> <li>Have a method within the controller and stub that out (e.g. <code>get_registration</code> which assigns an instance variable...)</li> </ol> <p>I've looked through the RSpec book (well, skimmed) and had a look through WebRat etc, but I haven't really found an answer to my problem...</p> <p>To clarify a bit more, the signup process is more like a state machine - e.g. the user progresses through four steps before the registration is complete - hence 'logging in' isn't really an option (it breaks the model of how the site works)...</p> <p>In my spec for the controller I was able to stub out the call to the method which loads the model based on the session var - but I'm not sure if the 'antipattern' line also applies to stubs as well as mocks?</p> <p>Thanks!</p>
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