9 comments

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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
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  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!
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  Diego

  1 year ago

  Thanks! Finally made my tests work..
  
  Regards
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  Jonathan

  1 year ago

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

  1 year ago

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

  1 year ago

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

  11 months 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
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  Jantzen Owens

  8 months 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.
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  joost

  4 months ago

  Instead of using Base64 directly, it's better to use:
  
  ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Basic.encode_credentials('username', 'password')
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