Authentication integration test with rspec/devise

_application_helper.rb

module ApplicationHelper
  # Public: display an inline user authentication interaction
  #
  # Returns the generated html String.
  def display_user_authentication
    if user_signed_in?
      render 'devise/menu/logout_button'
    else
      render 'devise/menu/login_form'
    end
  end
end

_header.html.erb

<div id="header" class="navbar navbar-fixed-top">
  <div class="navbar-inner">
    <div class="container-fluid">
      <a class="brand" href="#">CoHoop</a>
      <div class="btn-group pull-right">
        <%= display_user_authentication %>
      </div>
      <div class="nav-collapse">
        <ul class="nav">
          <li class="active"><a href="">Link</a></li>
        </ul>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

_login_form.html.erb

<%= form_for(resource, as: resource_name, url: session_path(resource_name), html: { id: 'login-mini-form' }) do |f| %>
  <%= f.email_field :email,       placeholder: 'Your email' %>
  <%= f.password_field :password, placeholder: '******' %>
  <%= f.submit "Log in", id: 'login-button' %>

  <%- if devise_mapping.rememberable? -%>
    <%= f.check_box :remember_me %> <%= f.label :remember_me %>
  <%- end -%>

<% end %>

_logout_button.erb

<%= link_to 'Log out', destroy_user_session_path, method: :delete, id: 'logout-link' %>

requestsauthentications_spec.rb

require 'spec_helper'

describe "User authentication" do
  describe 'action' do
    # [...]
    describe 'log in' do
      before { visit root_path }
      subject { page }
      describe 'should be able to be performed' do
        describe 'with valid credentials' do
          before do
            user = FactoryGirl.create(:user)
            fill_in :user_email, with: user.email
            fill_in :user_password, with: user.password
            click_on 'Log in'
          end
          it { should have_link 'Log out' }
        end
        # [...]
      end
    end
  end
end

test.log

Connecting to database specified by database.yml
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  Rendered devise/menu/_login_form.html.erb (2.0ms)
  Rendered layouts/_header.html.erb (3.1ms)
  Rendered shared/_flash_messages.html.erb (0.4ms)
Completed 200 OK in 201ms (Views: 180.9ms | ActiveRecord: 1.6ms)


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Processing by Devise::RegistrationsController#create as HTML
  Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "user"=>{"first_name"=>"", "last_name"=>"", "email"=>"", "password"=>"[FILTERED]", "password_confirmation"=>"[FILTERED]"}, "commit"=>"Register"}
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  Rendered devise/menu/_login_form.html.erb (1.1ms)
  Rendered layouts/_header.html.erb (1.5ms)
  Rendered shared/_flash_messages.html.erb (0.1ms)
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  Rendered layouts/_header.html.erb (1.4ms)
  Rendered shared/_flash_messages.html.erb (0.1ms)
Completed 200 OK in 6ms (Views: 5.8ms | ActiveRecord: 0.0ms)


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Processing by Devise::RegistrationsController#create as HTML
  Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "user"=>{"first_name"=>"", "last_name"=>"", "email"=>"", "password"=>"[FILTERED]", "password_confirmation"=>"[FILTERED]"}, "commit"=>"Register"}
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Processing by Devise::RegistrationsController#create as HTML
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Started POST "/users" for 127.0.0.1 at 2012-07-04 11:36:06 +0200
Processing by Devise::RegistrationsController#create as HTML
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Processing by Devise::RegistrationsController#create as HTML
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user_factory.rb

FactoryGirl.define do
  factory :user do
    sequence( :first_name )  { |n| "FirstName#{n}" }
    sequence( :last_name )  { |n| "LastName#{n}" }
    sequence( :email ) { |n| "foo#{n}@example.com" }
    password              'foobar'
    password_confirmation 'foobar'
    created_at            Time.now
    updated_at            Time.now
  end
end