Show me the cookies

Some helpers for cucumber stepdefs (or other situations) where you want to find out what is going on with your browser cookies.

Original development took place when testing Devise 0.1's "Remember me" functionality under rails 2.3.x with capybara rack-test and/or selenium.

Rails session cookies look something like '_appname_session', and can be found with browser resource tracker (e.g. firebug) or using rails 3's Rails.application.config.session_options[:key]

Credits and Acknowledgements

Initial release as a gist here, early development sponsored by Medify.

Contributions have been made by:

• Leandro Pedroni -- Rails 3 session cookie detection (no longer in the code but present in readme)
• Matthew Nielsen -- added culerity support & encouraged gem release

gem install

gem install show_me_the_cookies, or whatever fits your situation.

RSpec

in step_helper or your support directory:

RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.include ShowMeTheCookies, :type => :request
end

Example usage

it "remember-me is on by default" do
  member = Member.make
  visit dashboard_path
  page.should have_content "Login"
  within '#member_login' do
    fill_in "Email", :with => member.email
    fill_in "Password", :with => member.password
    click_on "Sign in"
  end

  page.should have_content("Dashboard")
  page.should have_no_content("Login")
  #     Given I close my browser (clearing the session)
  delete_cookie Rails.application.config.session_options[:key]

  #     When I come back next time
  visit dashboard_path
  page.should have_content("Dashboard")
  page.should have_no_content("Login")
end

Cucumber

Install by loading the gem and adding the following to your stepdefs or support files

World(ShowMeTheCookies)
Before('@announce') do
  @announce = true
end

Example Usage

@javascript @announce
Scenario: remembering users so they don't have to log in again for a while
  Given I am a site member
  When I go to the dashboard
  And I log in with the Remember Me option checked
  Then I should see "Welcome back"
  
  When I close my browser (clearing the session)
  And I return to the dashboard url
  Then I should see "Welcome back"

@rack_test @announce
Scenario: don't remember users across browser restarts if they don't want it
  Given I am a site member
  When I go to the dashboard
  And I log in without the Remember Me option checked
  Then I should see "Welcome back"

  When I close my browser (clearing the session)
  And I return to the dashboard url
  Then I should see the log-in screen

stepdef file

for example cookie_steps.rb

Then /^show me the cookies!$/ do
  show_me_the_cookies
end

Given /^I close my browser \(clearing the Medify session\)$/ do
  delete_cookie '_appname_session' # or in rails 3 use Rails.application.config.session_options[:key]
end

Contributing

Code-style comments, refactoring, tests and new features welcome (roughly in that order :).

When sending changes:

• Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet
• Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it
• Fork the project
• Start a feature/bugfix branch
• Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution
• Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
• Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version, or is otherwise necessary, that is fine, but please isolate to its own commit so I can cherry-pick around it.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2011 Nicholas Rutherford. See LICENSE.txt for further details.