FactoryGirl,Rspec2 and devise rails 3 - ruby-on-rails-3

Question

I am using Rspec, FactoryGirl and Spork for my tests.There are 2 things I am a litte unclear on, first is the location of my factories.rb file. At present I have it located in
spec/support/factories.rb
And it looks like this
FactoryGirl.define do
factory :user do
email "example#yahoo.com"
password "password"
password_confirmation "password"
confirmed_at Time.now
end
end
Within my spec_helper I have
config.include FactoryGirl::Syntax::Methods
Secondly I want to login a user before starting my tests for a controller , this particular controller has a before filter :authenticate_user!
I am using devise for my authentication so have added
config.include Devise::TestHelpers, :type => :controller
Reading the devise docs you can add a controller_macros.rb and specify methods like so to use
def login_user
before(:each) do
#request.env["devise.mapping"] = Devise.mappings[:user]
user = FactoryGirl.create(:user)
user.confirm! # or set a confirmed_at inside the factory. Only necessary if you are using the confirmable module
sign_in user
end
end
And so i added this also to my spec_helper
config.include ControllerMacros, :type => :controller
So when I add login_user before my controller tests i get undefined method login_user. Am i using two tools here to do the same thing? Do I actually need the devise methods or can it all be done with factoryGirl. If so how do i setup the login process before i can test a controller?

Answer 1

Factories location should be in spec/factories. Check out this example app https://github.com/RailsApps/rails3-devise-rspec-cucumber/tree/master/spec.
For login, generally you seems to doing it right. Check the example app again and here: https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/wiki/How-To:-Controllers-and-Views-tests-with-Rails-3-%28and-rspec%29
For the undefined method login_user error be sure to have
Dir[Rails.root.join("spec/support/**/*.rb")].each {|f| require f}
and
config.extend ControllerMacros, :type => :controller
in spec_helper. Devise methods should be available wtih subject:
subject.current_user.should_not be_nil