Esteban's suggestion pointed out that I was overlooking the asynchronous nature of the code. Going back to this example I realized I missed the significance of logging in in a separate test; doing so solved my problem.
Though I'm now creating dependent tests, which I'm not crazy about.
var app = require('../../../server'),
should = require('should'),
request = require('supertest'),
mongoose = require('mongoose'),
User = mongoose.model('User'),
_ = require('lodash');
var user = {
name: 'Sterling Archer',
email: 'duchess@isis.com',
password: 'guest'
};
var agent = request.agent(app);
describe('User Controller', function() {
before(function(done) {
var new_user = new User(user);
new_user.save();
done();
});
describe('user.signin', function() {
var url = '/signin';
it('should signin and return a user object', function(done) {
agent
.post(url)
.send(_.omit(user, 'name'))
.expect(200)
.end(function(err, res) {
should.not.exist(err);
res.body.should.have.property('user');
res.body.user.should.have.properties('name', 'email');
done();
});
});
});
describe('user.me', function() {
var url = '/user';
it('should return a user object', function(done) {
agent
.get(url)
.expect(200)
.end(function(err, res) {
should.not.exist(err);
res.body.should.have.property('user');
res.body.user.should.have.properties('name', 'email');
done();
});
});
});
after(function(done) {
User.remove().exec();
done();
});
});