"undefined method `env' for nil:NilClass" in 'setup_controller_for_warden' error when testing Devise using Rspec
I'm trying to create a spec for a sign out flow by using factorygirl to create a user and then use Devise's sign_in
method to authenticate the user, then use capybara to click the "Sign Out" link.
I'm getting (what seems to me to be) a strange error when I run the spec:
Failures:
1) Sign out flow successfully redirects to the welcome index (root)
Failure/Error: Unable to find matching line from backtrace
NoMethodError:
undefined method `env' for nil:NilClass
# /home/vagrant/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p576/gems/devise-3.4.1/lib/devise/test_helpers.rb:24:in `setup_controller_for_warden'
Finished in 0.00226 seconds (files took 3.32 seconds to load)
1 example, 1 failure
Here's the spec:
require 'rails_helper'
describe "Sign out flow" do
include Devise::TestHelpers
describe "successfully" do
it "redirects to the welcome index (root)" do
user = create(:user)
sign_in user
within '.user-info' do
click_link 'Sign Out'
end
expect(current_path).to eq root_path
end
end
end
And my user.rb
factory:
FactoryGirl.define do
factory :user do
name "Fake User"
sequence(:email, 100) { |n| "person#{n}@example.com" }
password "helloworld"
password_confirmation "helloworld"
confirmed_at Time.now
end
end
The error seems to be triggered simply from the line include Devise::TestHelpers
, as I've tried commenting out the entire content of the spec and still get the same error.
I thought the Devise test helpers would work out of the box; did I miss some configuration? Thanks.
In Rails 5 you must include Devise::Test::IntegrationHelpers
instead Devise::Test::ControllerHelpers
:
# rails_helper.rb
config.include Devise::Test::IntegrationHelpers, type: :feature
See more:
- https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/issues/3913#issuecomment
- https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/pull/4071
Apparently there are issues with Devise::TestHelpers
and integration testing, so perhaps that's the problem here.
https://github.com/plataformatec/devise (mentioned in README, Issues, etc.; also see related SO questions):
These helpers are not going to work for integration tests driven by Capybara or Webrat. They are meant to be used with functional tests only. Instead, fill in the form or explicitly set the user in session;