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Sinatra Testing with Rack::Test

Introduction

We're going to create a simple Sinatra application that authenticates a user via a JSON API and returns an authentication token. For now the user credentials (username/password) will be hard-coded.

The application will be tested with Rack::Test and should have at least two test cases:

• Testing a user successfully authenticates and receives an authentication token
• Testing a user fails to authenticate and returns an empty response

Example Output

The response for a successful request should be similar to:

{
  success: true,
  token: '32925e4e8b6648afa2659f807e74cce8'
}

The response for an unsuccessful request should be similar to:

{
  success: false,
  token: null
}

This response should also return a 401 Unauthorized status code.

Walk-through

Coding walk-through to be done in person with group.

Solutions

• Basic example
• Authentication stub object
• JSON service
• Testing with Rack::Test and RSpec