Testing Rails REST API with RSpec

Question

I'm building a REST API on Rails, and I'm trying to use RSpec to test it. I'm using fairly boilerplate auth code:

  def authenticate_user_from_token
    pp 'authenticate_user_from_token'
    pp request.headers.inspect
    user = authenticate_with_http_token do |token, options|
      pp token
      user_id = options[:user_id]
      user = user_id && Eater.find_by_id(user_id)

      if user && Devise.secure_compare(user.auth_token, token)
        user
      else
        nil
      end
    end

    @current_user = user
  end

This works perfectly if I send requests with curl, but I can't figure out how to pass the auth token in Rspec. My basic request is this:

get '/api/1/users/1'

I've tried setting the token using the header method:

header 'Authorization: Token token', @token

That doesn't work. I've also tried passing it to the get method as I've seen in some examples:

get '/api/1/users/1', :authorization => @token

Also doesn't work. What's the correct way to do this?

Answer 1

The HTTP parameters are the third argument to get, so you need to do something like:

get '/api/1/users/1', nil, {'Authorization' => @token}

Depending on the constraints on the key, you may also get away with:

get '/api/1/users/1', nil, authorization: @token