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Setting session variables in an RSpec Rails request spec

You are writing a spec with type: :request, i.e. an integration spec instead of a controller spec. Integration specs are wrappers around Rails' ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest class. I usually write controller tests using this instead of type: :controller, mainly because it exercises more of the request and response handling stack. So instead of writing something like get :index to start the request, you would write get books_path or similar.

One of the issues with using type: :request is that you lose the ability to

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# This is basically the same Ryan Davis's script
# (http://blog.zenspider.com/blog/2012/09/ohmygems.html) with a bug fix and some
# modifications.
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# This should be added after rbenv config lines on your .profile or .bashrc file.
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export ORIG_GEM_PATH=${GEM_PATH:-}
export ORIG_GEM_HOME=${GEM_HOME:-}
export ORIG_PATH=${PATH}