Comments on: Testing with Basic HTTP Authentication in Rails 2.0

By: joost

joost — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:53:53 +0000

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

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

Jantzen Owens — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:47:55 +0000

This was just what I needed!

Like unit testing you can do

def setup
http_auth
end

so all your test methods are authenticated.

Ryan Cannon — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:47:48 +0000

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

robert — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:46:35 +0000

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

Lane — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:12:58 +0000

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

Jonathan — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:20:17 +0000

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

Diego — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:48:34 +0000

Thanks! Finally made my tests work..

Regards

Jonathan — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:06:52 +0000

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!

Hugues Lamy — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:39:43 +0000

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

Take Care.

Hugues