controllerspec.rb

require 'spec_helper'

describe CategoriesController do

  def valid_attributes
    { "name" => "MyString" }
  end

  def valid_session
    {}
  end

  describe "POST create" do
    fixtures :users
    let (:user) { users(:miketheboss) }

    describe "user loading" do
      it "should load the damned user" do
        user.username.should eq "miketheboss"
      end
    end

    describe "role authorization" do
      it "prevents non-administrators from creating new categories" do
        login_user user
        post :create, {:category => valid_attributes}
        response.should render_template 'New'
      end
    end
  end

end

First Error Scenario

Rack::File headers parameter replaces cache_control after Rack 1.5.
.F

Failures:

  1) CategoriesController POST create role authorization prevents non-administrators from creating new categories
     Failure/Error: let (:user) { users(:miketheboss) }
     ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound:
       Couldn't find User with id=702598363
     # ./spec/controllers/categories_controller_spec.rb:15:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'
     # ./spec/controllers/categories_controller_spec.rb:25:in `block (4 levels) in <top (required)>'

Finished in 1.23 seconds
2 examples, 1 failure

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/controllers/categories_controller_spec.rb:24 # CategoriesController POST create role authorization prevents non-administrators from creating new categories

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Second Error Scenario

FF

Failures:

  1) CategoriesController POST create role authorization prevents non-administrators from creating new categories
     Failure/Error: login_user user
     NoMethodError:
       undefined method `username_attribute_names' for nil:NilClass
     # ./spec/controllers/categories_controller_spec.rb:25:in `block (4 levels) in <top (required)>'

  2) CategoriesController POST create user loading should load the damned user
     Failure/Error: let (:user) { users(:miketheboss) }
     ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound:
       Couldn't find User with id=702598363
     # ./spec/controllers/categories_controller_spec.rb:15:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'
     # ./spec/controllers/categories_controller_spec.rb:19:in `block (4 levels) in <top (required)>'

Finished in 1.22 seconds
2 examples, 2 failures

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/controllers/categories_controller_spec.rb:24 # CategoriesController POST create role authorization prevents non-administrators from creating new categories
rspec ./spec/controllers/categories_controller_spec.rb:18 # CategoriesController POST create user loading should load the damned user

Randomized with seed 17596

spec_helper.rb

# This file is copied to spec/ when you run 'rails generate rspec:install'
ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= 'test'
require File.expand_path("../../config/environment", __FILE__)
require 'rspec/rails'
require 'email_spec'
require 'rspec/autorun'

# Requires supporting ruby files with custom matchers and macros, etc,
# in spec/support/ and its subdirectories.
Dir[Rails.root.join("spec/support/**/*.rb")].each {|f| require f}

RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.include(EmailSpec::Helpers)
  config.include(EmailSpec::Matchers)
  config.include(Sorcery::TestHelpers::Rails)
  # ## Mock Framework
  #
  # If you prefer to use mocha, flexmock or RR, uncomment the appropriate line:
  #
  # config.mock_with :mocha
  # config.mock_with :flexmock
  # config.mock_with :rr

  # Remove this line if you're not using ActiveRecord or ActiveRecord fixtures
  config.fixture_path = "#{::Rails.root}/spec/fixtures"

  # If you're not using ActiveRecord, or you'd prefer not to run each of your
  # examples within a transaction, remove the following line or assign false
  # instead of true.
  config.use_transactional_fixtures = true

  # If true, the base class of anonymous controllers will be inferred
  # automatically. This will be the default behavior in future versions of
  # rspec-rails.
  config.infer_base_class_for_anonymous_controllers = false

  # Run specs in random order to surface order dependencies. If you find an
  # order dependency and want to debug it, you can fix the order by providing
  # the seed, which is printed after each run.
  #     --seed 1234
  config.order = "random"

  config.before(:suite) do
    DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation
  end
  config.before(:each) do
    DatabaseCleaner.start
  end
  config.after(:each) do
    DatabaseCleaner.clean
  end
end

users.yml

miketheboss:
  username: miketheboss
  email: mike@theboss.com
  salt: <%= salt = "eucenuteouh282" %>
  crypted_password: <%= Sorcery::CryptoProviders::BCrypt.encrypt("secret", salt) %>
  type: Admin