Follow redirect after POST
Reported by Mark Dodwell | May 23rd, 2008 @ 07:30 PM
When you post a login controller action that successfully logins sends a redirect webrat does not to follow the redirected URL.
For example, with a controller with the following:
def login
if user = User.authenticate(params['username'], params['password'])
session[:user_id] = user.id
redirect_to 'admin/dashboard'
else
flash[:notice] = "Login unsuccessful."
end
end
doing:
post '/admin/login', { 'username' => 'joe', 'password' => '1234' }
is not the same as doing this:
post '/admin/login', { 'username' => 'joe', 'password' => '1234' }
get 'admin/dashboard'
I believe this is a bug.
Comments and changes to this ticket
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Mark Dodwell May 23rd, 2008 @ 07:32 PM
Sorry please delete that ticket -- it's nothing to do with webrat these methods are from Rails. Too late...
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Peter Jaros October 10th, 2008 @ 12:33 PM
@Mark
I'm hitting the same issue. Is there a Rails bug this corresponds to?
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Mark Dodwell October 10th, 2008 @ 12:44 PM
Hi Peter -- it's not a bug actually.
If you want Rails to follow any redirect you have to append '_via_redirect' to the end of your (get|post|delete|put) method call.
See the Rails API doc for more info:
http://www.railsbrain.com/api/ra...
Hope that helps!
~ Mark
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Mark Dodwell October 10th, 2008 @ 12:46 PM
Just realized that link doesn't work, anyway sure you get the idea! This one works:
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Bryan Helmkamp October 21st, 2008 @ 11:41 PM
- State changed from “new” to “resolved”
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Ruby Acceptance Testing for Web applications.
Bryan Helmkamp
Mark Dodwell
Peter Jaros