Testing Views that use Devise with RSpec

Question

I am trying to get a previously passing rspec "view spec" to pass after adding Devise's `user_signed_in?` method to the view template in question. The template looks something like this: ``` <% if user_signed_in? %> Welcome back. <% else %> Please sign in. <% endif %> ``` The view spec that was passing looks something like this: ``` require "spec_helper" describe "home/index.html.erb" do it "asks you to sign in if you are not signed in" do render rendered.should have_content('Please sign in.') end end ``` The error it produces after adding the call to `user_signed_in?` is: ``` 1) home/index.html.erb asks you to sign in if you are not signed in Failure/Error: render ActionView::Template::Error: undefined method `authenticate' for nil:NilClass # ./app/views/home/index.html.erb:1:in `_app_views_home_index_html_erb__1932916999377371771_70268384974540' # ./spec/views/home/index.html.erb_spec.rb:6:in `block (2 levels) in ' ``` There are plenty of references to this error aro…

Accepted Answer

The error you're receiving is because you need to include the devise test helpers

Generally you'll add this (and you might already have) to spec/support/devise.rb

```
RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.include Devise::TestHelpers, :type => :controller
end
```

But since you're creating a view spec, you'll want something like this:

```
RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.include Devise::TestHelpers, :type => :controller
  config.include Devise::TestHelpers, :type => :view
end
```

Testing Views that use Devise with RSpec

Solution

Problem