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Hugues Lamy · 1 year ago

Thanks for the tip. You just saved me couple of hours of fighting with the tests.

Take Care.

Hugues

Jonathan · 1 year ago

Ce n'est pas un problème! (That's my year of Français I took coming out)

I definitely spent too much time trying to figure this out...it's the simple things that are always a pain!

Diego · 1 year ago

Thanks! Finally made my tests work..

Regards

Jonathan · 1 year ago

It's always kind of cool when random people read your blog and you can help them :)

Lane · 1 year ago

Ahh, yes! I've been looking for this too. Thanks!

robert · 1 year ago

thanks for this. helped in our functional tests of our REST services using http basic auth.

Ryan Cannon · 1 year ago

A few months late, I found this via the Google. A couple notes:

In case you're unfamiliar with testing Rails, this goes in test/test_helper.rb

The function above doesn't actually let you test HTTP Authentication. To do that you'll need to do something like:

def authenticate_with_http(username, password)
@request.env[”HTTP_AUTHORIZATION”] =
"Basic #{Base64.encode64("#{username}:#{password}")}"
end

Jantzen Owens · 1 year ago

This was just what I needed!

Like unit testing you can do

def setup
http_auth
end

so all your test methods are authenticated.

joost · 10 months ago

Instead of using Base64 directly, it's better to use:

ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Basic.encode_credentials('username', 'password')