Testing multiple page actions in Rails

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Some actions in Rails require sessions spanning multiple pages. Things
like "login & check account" or "fill a shopping cart and check out".

I'm having trouble creating functional testing for these for two
reasons:

1) The post() etc. methods seem to reset the session each time.

2) How do you create a functional test that accesses multiple
controllers?

Specifically, could someone post a functional test to a controller that
requires the user be logged in first?

Thanks.

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You might have better results posting this to the Rails mailing list at

http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo\.

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listr...@gmail.com wrote:

Some actions in Rails require sessions spanning multiple pages. Things
like "login & check account" or "fill a shopping cart and check out".

I'm having trouble creating functional testing for these for two
reasons:

1) The post() etc. methods seem to reset the session each time.

2) How do you create a functional test that accesses multiple
controllers?

Specifically, could someone post a functional test to a controller that
requires the user be logged in first?

Thanks.

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I took a look at some RoR projects, to see how they do this.

Many just set the session explicilty, to simulate what it would look
like in the middle.

I don't like this, because it couples the test to the implementation of
what's stored in the session. It would be much better to have a tester
that can span multiple requests.