How to map the CURL command to Unit testing in Rails

开发者_C百科I ran the below curl command in terminal

curl -d "message" http://localhost:8080/api/validate -u username:password

and is running as expected.

I am writing a functional test for the above in Rails. For doing this I have to call the post method and pass the arguments whatever I have done for curl to post.

post 'validate',:request => "message"

I am able to pass the request paramater successfully. But how do I pass the username and password that I am passing in Curl to the post method in rails. Please advise

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The option you are passing to curl is setting up HTTP Basic Auth, so you need to do that in your test.

Take a look at whats going on in the answer to this question:

Testing HTTP Basic Auth in Rails 2.2+