Testing Rails Authlogic with Cucumber

In early rails projects I rolled my own authentication system, later I used restful-authentication. This time I'm going to try out AuthLogic which seems to be fairly popular, cleanly packaged and actively developed. I may walk through an AuthLogic installation in a future post but today I just want to make sure it can play nicely with cucumber.

First I wrote a fairly basic login scenario. You'll notice I stuck with the declarative style in writing this and I followed the advice provided in "The RSpec Book". I use direct model access to create the registered user in the 'Given' but then use simulated browser access to do the login and verify the actions success.

Scenario: successful login
Given I am the registered user John Doe
And I am on the login page
When I login with valid credentials
Then I should be on the account page
And I should see "Login successful!"

This left me with three steps to implement:

Given /^I am the registered user (.+)$/ do |login|
  params = {
    "login"=> login,
    "password"=>"password",
    "password_confirmation"=>"password"
  }
  @user = User.create(params)
end

When /^I login with valid credentials$/ do
  fill_in('Login', :with => @user.login)
  fill_in('Password', :with => "password")
  click_button("Login")
end

Then /^I should be on ([^\"]*)$/ do |page_name|
response.request.path.should == path_to(page_name)
end

All fairly straight forward. I don't expect any problems using Cucumber with Authlogic.