How do you fake cookies in capybara?

Question

I am testing an app that would be installed on a sub domain to take advantage of the cookies created by the main app. How ever unless both apps are running on, say: site.local.com the app I am testing doesn't have access to a session controller, thus I cannot create cookies in testing via typical sign in methods.

So my question is, how do I - in capybara - fake cookies? I have tried something like:

it "should ... ", type: :request do
  sign_in(@user)
  ...
end

#sign_in definition:
def sign_in(user) 
  cookies.signed[:auth_token] = user.auth_token
end

How ever the issue is:

 Failure/Error: sign_in(@user)
 NameError:
   undefined local variable or method `cookies' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1::Nested_2:0x000000090cd998>

Answer 1

Try this:

page.driver.browser.set_cookie("auth_token=#{user.auth_token}")