How to set a variable in my rspec test so that it can be used by the controller to query?

Question

I have a variable in the session controller.

session[:facebook_profile_id] = @user_info['id'] 

@user_info ['id'] is an int. Example: 123

Then I use this session variable in my main controller to get the profile object from the database.

 def show @facebook_profile = FacebookProfile.find_by_facebook_id(session[:facebook_profile_id]) end 

The new object was found using the session variable and is used in my application, so my rspec test fails without it.

Here is my Factory for FacebookProfile:

 FactoryGirl.define do factory :facebook_profile do |f| f.facebook_id 123 end end 

In my test test for the application, I create a Factory instance before each test:

 FactoryGirl.create(:facebook_profile).should be_valid 

How to set session [: facebook_profile_id] variable in my test case so that search in @facebook_profile is not interrupted?

I tried knocking, but couldn't make it work. Also, I tried this in the function specification. Should I do this in the controller specification?

Answer 1

If your goal is functional testing, just simply assign it directly to the test

 # describe ..... session[:facebook_profile_id] = 123 # end 

After assignment you can also get a variable

 session[:facebook_profile_id]