activations_controller_spec.rb

describe ActivationsController do

  before :each do
    @user = Factory.create(:user, :active => 0)
    @user.reset_perishable_token!
  end

  describe "functionality tests" do

    describe "new" do

      def do_get
        get :new, :activation_code => @user.perishable_token
      end

      it "should load user" do
        do_get
        assigns[:user].should == @user
      end

      it "should raise an WrongtokenException if the perishable_token is wrong" do
        lambda { get :new, :activation_code => "eCUq0D23cIacTAMtvUlF"}.should raise_error(WrongTokenException)
      end

      it "should raise an UserAlreadyActiveException is the user is active, but the perishable_token is correct" do
        @user = Factory.create(:user, :active => 1)
        lambda { do_get}.should raise_error(UserAlreadyActiveException)
      end

end

user.rb

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  
  # standard authlogic behaviour
  authenticates_many :user_sessions
  acts_as_authentic do |c|
    # disabling this stops the perishable token being updated whenever there are any changes made to the user model
    c.disable_perishable_token_maintenance = true

  end

end

user_spec.rb

describe User do
  # setup authlogic as we'd expect
  before :each do
    activate_authlogic
  end

  describe "perishable_token maintenance" do

    # sanity check to make sure we're actually setting tokens to check against
    it "should set perishable_token on create" do
      user = Factory.create(:user)
      user.perishable_token.should_not be_blank
    end

    # With this setup, we can tell that tokens are no longer being changed by our cronjob to update user's hotness 
    it "should not change perishable_token when updating model" do
      user = Factory.create(:user)
      token = user.perishable_token
      user.update_attribute :hotness, 2000
      user.reload
      user.perishable_token.should == token
    end

    # We DO want to make sure users can only activate once though
    it "should reset perishable_token on activate" do
      user = Factory.create(:user)
      token = user.perishable_token
      user.activate!
      user.reload
      user.perishable_token.should_not == token
    end

  end

end