Testing with cookies

This might help:
http://blog.teksol.info/articles/2006/0 … onal-tests

I see the problem now. The way cookies works is a Set-Cookie: line is added to the Header of the response when setting a cookie. The cookie isn't actually set until the browser gets the response. In other words, you can't retrieve a cookie right after you set it. You have to wait until the next request (which can be right after a redirect).

It is a little confusing how Rails does it because it looks like you are just setting a hash when setting a cookie, but Rails is doing some magic behind the scenes and just adding a line to the header of the response instead of setting the cookie hash.

If you want to test if a cookie is set, check out the @response.cookies in your test. That should contain a hash of the cookies which were set during the request.

Aha, it was nil in the test because I was looking for cookies[:auth_token] instead of cookies["auth_token"].

I haven't tried an integration test.  What I'm doing now is storing the cookie, and attempting to pass it along with the subsequent request.

    post :login, :user => @system.attributes, :save_login => '1'
    assert_response :redirect
    assert_redirected_to :controller => 'doodle', :action => 'index'
    assert_not_nil session[:current_user]
    assert_not_nil cookies['auth_token']
    
    cookie = cookies['auth_token']
    
    session[:current_user] = nil
    
    @controller = SystemController.new
    @request.cookies['auth_token'] = cookie
    get :index
    assert_not_nil session[:current_user]
    assert_response :redirect
    assert_redirected_to :controller => 'sites', :action => 'list'