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Functional test for HTTP Basic Authentication in Rails 2

If you want to provide a username and password for a HTTP Basic Authentication in one of your functional tests, simply use the following:

def test_should_get_index
  @request.env["HTTP_AUTHORIZATION"] = "Basic " + Base64::encode64("username:password")
  get :index
  assert_response :success
  assert_not_nil assigns(:articles)
end

Keywords: rails test, functionals, authorization, basic http authentication, how to test

Filed under: English, Rails 2.0, Rails 2.1, Ruby, Ruby 1.8, Ruby On Rails on June 23rd, 2008

2 Responses to “Functional test for HTTP Basic Authentication in Rails 2”

Hallison Batista, on July 19th, 2008 at 01:34 Said:

Thanks ….

I did it through this article …

Congrats ….
Tim S., on October 14th, 2008 at 23:40 Said:

thanks a lot.. searched a lot and this is my favourite solution