HTTP headers don't seem to be passed correctly to the request

[benpickles]

Making a request like so:

post :create, {}, { "X-BLAH" => "blah" }

ends up with a request object with the specified headers nested in "rack.session":

#<ActionController::TestRequest:0x105e02698 ... "rack.session"=>{"X-BLAH"=>"blah"} ... >

so, for instance, sending an HTTP_AUTHORIZATION header doesn't get picked up by authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic.

I'm using the gems:

gem "rails", "3.0.0.beta3"
gem "rspec", "2.0.0.beta.9"
gem "rspec-rails", "2.0.0.beta.9.1"

Ben

ps. This didn't happen with rspec 2 beta4

[dchelimsky]

As of beta.8, controller specs delegate to ActionController::TestCase::Behavior (http://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/actionpack/lib/action_controller/test_case.rb).

To set headers, you set them directly on the request object:

request.env["X-BLAH"] = "blah"
post :create, ....

[benpickles]

Great, thanks for the quick reply. Where might I find documentation?

[dchelimsky]

http://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails and http://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/actionpack/lib/action_controller/test_case.rb

[DCarper]

What about for request specs?

request is coming up nil?

Thanks,
Dan

[DCarper]

Woops looks like #request_via_redirect does the trick

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/testing.html#helpers-available-for-integration-tests

Dan