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Testing and Session Variables

Dan Tappin asked in Testing

In my Rails 5 app I am using Pundit for authorization with a custom context. I have a multi-tenant application and I have an Enrollment model that joins my User and Tenant model. This was a single user can have authorization scoped to the tenant. The app works fine - the tests not so much.

Here is some of my code (built by a third party a while back):

class ApplicationPolicy
  attr_reader :enrollment, :record

  def initialize(enrollment, record)
    @enrollment = enrollment
    @record = record
  end
end

In my application controller current_enrollment is set from a session variable.

So here is a typical policy:

  def download?
    return true if enrollment.has_role?('administrator')
    false
  end

Thats a valid fixture but my tests will fail with NoMethodError: undefined method 'has_role?' for nil:NilClass. Clearly the enrollment in the policy is not set. Done lots of searching on this but could not find another similar question etc.

It's not a Pundit issue - the session variables seem to not be set in test environment.

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I had a rouge conditional wrapped around my code where I set the enrollment. This fails in testing but passes in production. Tweaked that and now it works fine.

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