Rspec Setup for Controller Testing With Devise

authentication.rb

# /spec/support/authentication.rb
# sign in methods to use in a before block
# you will then have access to the corresponding account variable such as '@user'
# or '@admin' throughout your test suite

# sign in a user
def sign_in_user(user=nil)
  sign_out_all

  @user = user || FactoryGirl.create(:user_w_trip)
  sign_in @user
end

# sign in an admin
def sign_in_super_admin(admin=nil)
  sign_out_all

  @admin = admin || FactoryGirl.create(:super_admin)
  sign_in @admin
end

def sign_in_content_admin(admin=nil)
  sign_out_all

  @content_admin = admin || FactoryGirl.create(:content_admin)
  sign_in @content_admin
end

def sign_in_employee(employee=nil)
  @employee = employee || FactoryGirl.create(:employee)
  sign_in @employee
end


def sign_out_all
  [@user, @admin, @employee].each do |obj|
    sign_out obj if obj
  end
end

controller_example_spec.rb

# /spec/controllers/whatever_controller_spec.rb

require 'spec_helper'

describe Management::CountriesController do
  let(:country) {mock_model(Country).as_null_object}

  before(:all) do
    sign_in_super_admin
  end

  describe "GET index" do

    # Even though we can test this kind of thing through direct
    # tests on ability.rb, I like to double down to make sure
    context "regular user" do
      before do
        sign_in_user  # this will sign out the admin
      end
      it "can not access" do
        get :index
        response.should redirect_to new_admin_session_path
      end
    end

    # this test (and others) will have the admin as the currently
    # logged in individual and you could have access by @admin
    it "assigns all countries as @countries" do
      Country.stub(:accessible_by) {[country]}
      get :index
      assigns(:countries).should eq([country])
    end


    # etc...

  end

end

devise.rb

# /spec/support/devise.rb

RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.include Devise::TestHelpers, :type => :controller
end

users.rb

# /spec/factories/users.rb

FactoryGirl.define do


  # confirmed user
  factory :user do
    name "Joe Blow"
    email { FactoryGirl.generate(:email) }
    confirmation_token nil
    confirmed_at  1.day.ago
    confirmation_sent_at 2.days.ago
    unconfirmed_email nil
    encrypted_password '$2a$10$/2wRkxh6dssddsGE5HyzPCcasd/BLHe8KAwewewe5e1ys5K5pWh$TvEzciqG'
    password 'password'
  end

end