Show me the cookies

Some helpers for poking around at your Capybara driven browser's cookies in integration tests. Should have been called capybara-cookies if you go by the rubygems naming guide.

Provides drivers for rack-test, selenium-webdriver), Poltergeist (PhantomJS) and capybara-webkit. You may add new drivers for your application by implementing an adapter class and calling ShowMeTheCookies.register_adapter in your test code (e.g. a spec/support file).

API

  # puts a string summary of the cookie
  show_me_the_cookie(cookie_name)

  # returns a hash of the cookie
  # form: {:name, :domain, :value, :expires, :path}
  get_me_the_cookie(cookie_name)

  # puts a string summary of all cookies
  show_me_the_cookies

  # returns an array of cookie hashes
  # form: [{:name, :domain, :value, :expires, :path, :secure}]
  get_me_the_cookies

  # deletes the named cookie
  delete_cookie(cookie_name)

  # removes session cookies and expired persistent cookies
  expire_cookies
  
  # creates a cookie
  create_cookie(cookie_name, cookie_value)
  
  # creates a cookie for the path or domain
  create_cookie(cookie_name, cookie_value, :path => "...", :domain => "...")

Installation

Add to your gemfile's test group:

gem "show_me_the_cookies"

RSpec

in spec_helper/rails_helper or your required support directory:

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

Example usage

In a request spec, using Capybara

specify "user login is remembered across browser restarts" do
  log_in_as_user
  should_be_logged_in
  #browser restart = session cookie is lost
  expire_cookies
  should_be_logged_in
end

Cucumber

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

World(ShowMeTheCookies)

Features

@javascript
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
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

Stepdefs

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

Then /^show me the "([^"]*)" cookie$/ do |cookie_name|
  show_me_the_cookie(cookie_name)
end

Given /^I close my browser \(clearing the session\)$/ do
  expire_cookies
end

Installing your own drivers

Register your adapter class in your test setup after loading the library.

ShowMeTheCookies.register_adapter(driver, adapter)

for example

ShowMeTheCookies.register_adapter(:custom_selenium_a, ShowMeTheCookies::Selenium)

which indicates how to use the selenium adapter with a custom selenium testing profile.

Usage / License / Support

This software is provided free of charge for use at your own risk, see MIT License. If you have trouble making the software work try posting on stackoverflow. If you find a bug or don't understand the documentation open a github issue.

Contributing

Bugs should be raised in the issue tracker.

Code contributions should be sent as Github pull requests, or by messaging me with a link to your repository branch. Please run the tests, and add new ones.

New drivers will be selectively accepted. Be sure that the api spec passes. If you prefer to keep the driver in your own repository send me the address and I'll add a link in the docs.

Development and running the tests

bundle install
bundle exec rspec

If you get DNS lookup failures try this in the terminal

host lvh.me

You should get a quick response of

lvh.me has address 127.0.0.1

If you don't see this your router or similar is interfering with the DNS for security reasons, blocking a loopback lookup result. You can get around this by changing your DNS server to Google's public DNS service 8.8.8.8 to run the tests. You can turn this off again afterwards. Alternatively you can add an /etc/hosts entry looping back lvh.me to 127.0.0.1.

History, Credits, and Acknowledgements

Contributors

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. Initial release as a gist here. Development sponsored by Medify.

Contributions outside of github have been made by:

• Leandro Pedroni
• Matthew Nielsen