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 Juni 23rd, 2008

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

  1. Hallison Batista, on Juli 19th, 2008 at 01:34 Said:

    Thanks ….

    I did it through this article …

    Congrats ….

  2. Tim S., on Oktober 14th, 2008 at 23:40 Said:

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

  3. Jacek Becela, on Februar 11th, 2009 at 15:57 Said:

    I second Tim S. Saved me a lot of time.

  4. Mike Dietz, on April 21st, 2009 at 17:36 Said:

    Thanks for the info!

    One additional suggestion: use ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Basic.encode_credentials. That way you don’t have to manually concatenate “Basic “, etc.

    Details are here: http://tek-zappeln.blogspot.com/2009/04/rails-2-functional-tests-with-http.html

  5. Greg, on Oktober 12th, 2009 at 22:30 Said:

    You’re a life saver! Thanks.

  6. Tenorio, on März 30th, 2010 at 22:57 Said:

    Thanks buddy I was looking for this.

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