Show me the cookies

Some helpers for poking around at your Capybara driven browser's cookies in integration tests.

Supports Capybara's bundled drivers (rack-test, Selenium Webdriver) and Poltergeist (PhantomJS). 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}]
  get_me_the_cookies

  # deletes the named cookie
  delete_cookie(cookie_name)

  # removes session cookies and expired persistent cookies
  expire_cookies

Installation

Add to your gemfile's test group:

gem "show_me_the_cookies"

RSpec

in step_helper or your 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
  
  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.

Contributing

If you find this useful some ways to say thanks are reviewing the code and/or kind words or other feedback by Github message. 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 are unlikely to be accepted at this stage. You can instead add them to your application's test setup. If you come up with an interesting new driver/adapter mail me with a link to a repository or gist and I'll link to it here. Hopefully the API shared-spec will come in useful when working on your own driver.

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, early development sponsored by Medify.

Contributions outside of github have been made by: