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Testing Rails 3.1 Basic Auth - 05 Apr 2012


Testing http_basic_authenticate_with is pretty simple. When testing successful tests, you’ll want to ‘login’ first. This can be done with the following code.

request.env['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'] =
  ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Basic
    .encode_credentials( name, password )

I’d recommend adding this to a support method as well.