Ruby on Rails RSpec put method doesn't see signed in user - ruby

Question

so I've been using Michael Hartl's tutorial for some time and I can say it's really useful but there's a problem and I gues it's not on the tutorial's part. So in chapter "9.2.2 Requiring the right user" ther's a test for checking that a user can access neither other user's edit page nor submit a direct PUT reauest.
describe "as wrong user" do
let(:user) { FactoryGirl.create(:user) }
let(:wrong_user) { FactoryGirl.create(:user, email: "wrong#example.com") }
before { sign_in user }
describe "visiting Users#edit page" do
before { visit edit_user_path(wrong_user) }
it { should_not have_selector('title', text: full_title('Edit user')) }
end
describe "submitting a PUT request to the Users#update action" do
before { put user_path(wrong_user) }
specify { response.should redirect_to(root_path) }
end
end
So long all seems right but the test fails:
1) Authentication authorization as wrong user submitting a PUT request to the Users#update action ←[31mFailure/Error:←[0m ←[31mspecify { response.should redirect_to(root_path }←[0m←[31mExpected response to be a redirect to <http://www.example.com/> but was a redirect to <http://www.example.com/signin>←[0m←[36m # ./spec/requests/authentication_pages_spec.rb:107:in `block (5 levels) in <top (required)>'←[0m
Here's the User controller:
class UsersController < ApplicationController
before_filter :signed_in_user, only: [:index, :edit, :update]
before_filter :correct_user, only: [:edit, :update]
def index
#users = User.all
end
def show
#user = User.find(params[:id])
end
def new
#user = User.new
end
def create
#user = User.new(params[:user])
if #user.save
sign_in #user
flash[:success] = "Welcome to the Sample App!"
redirect_to #user
else
render 'new'
end
end
def edit
end
def update
if #user.update_attributes(params[:user])
flash[:success] = "Profile updated"
sign_in #user
redirect_to #user
else
render 'edit'
end
end
private
def signed_in_user
unless signed_in?
puts "No user signed in"
store_location
redirect_to signin_path, notice: "Please sign in."
end
end
def correct_user
#user = User.find(params[:id])
puts "Incorrect user" unless current_user?(#user)
redirect_to(root_path) unless current_user?(#user)
end
end
So as you can see the problem is that when using RSpec put method, the test fails even before checking for the right user because it sees ther's no user signed in.
This is a small problem which can easily be omitted (incorrect user cannot make direct PUT request anyway) but it's a puzzle for me why doesn't it work correct and I can't get the answer for quite a time already.

Answer 1

It looks like the signed_in_user filter is redirecting back to the sign in page before the correct_user fires. That suggests that the user is not actually signed in correctly by the sign_in user call in the before block.
Have you defined sign_in in spec/support/utilities.rb?
include ApplicationHelper
def sign_in(user)
visit signin_path
fill_in "Email", with: user.email
fill_in "Password", with: user.password
click_button "Sign in"
# Sign in when not using Capybara as well.
cookies[:remember_token] = user.remember_token
end