Are still a nightmare to get tested, etc.
To share sessions across subdomains you need to set the session options during the request so you know what domain you're sharing across. This means we still need to do it with a before_filter, or something similar. It looks like you should be able to set :domain => true
in config/initializers/session_store.rb
to do this instead but Devise does not support it yet as far as I can see.
Here I'm using subdomains with a custom url_for
extension which means from "http://www.smackaho.st" root_path
would be "/" while from "http://admin.smackaho.st" root_path
would be "http://www.smackaho.st/".
In cucumber this is forced to always qualify the full URL with the subdomain. It also rewrites the port in/out as neccessary to cope with Capybara's server using an alternate port (used by Selenium for javascript testing etc). The project I'm on is still using web_steps (sigh) so I had to touch the "should be on" step definition to cope with this too.
This appears to be incompatible with Capybara 2.1.0 and Rails 3.2.13. Specifically, the:
Fails, with:
Im still looking at how this can be altered to work...but I'm new to rails so it's a bit of a learning curve...