authlogic flash[:notice] does not show up in cucumber webrat step - ruby-on-rails

Question

I am running BDD steps with cucumber to implement my autlogic login behavior.
Scenario: log in
Given a registered user: "test#test.com" with password: "p#ssword" exists
And I am on the homepage
When I follow "Log in"
And I fill in "Username" with "test#test.com"
And I fill in "Password" with "p#ssword"
And I open the page
And I press "Login"
And I open the page
Then I should see "Login successful!"
And I should see "Logout"
this is my scenario and when I hit
Then I should see "Login successful!"
my cucumber step fails but only in webrat. I debugged with launchy and when the web-page appeard there is indeed no message but in development mode, when I run script/server I see my messages.
My controller looks like this
def create
#user_session = UserSession.new(params[:user_session])
if #user_session.save
flash[:notice] = "Login successful!"
redirect_to root_url
else
render :action => 'new'
end
end
And yes I saw this
http://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic/issuesearch?state=open&q=cucumber+flash#issue/142
and did not understand how this could help me
and this also did not help
Rails/Cucumber/Webrat: redirect_to, flash[:notice] not working
my setup is
*** LOCAL GEMS ***
actionmailer (2.3.8)
actionpack (2.3.8)
activerecord (2.3.8)
activeresource (2.3.8)
activesupport (2.3.8)
authlogic (2.1.5)
builder (2.1.2)
configuration (1.1.0)
cucumber (0.8.4, 0.8.3)
cucumber-rails (0.3.2)
database_cleaner (0.5.2)
declarative_authorization (0.4.1)
diff-lcs (1.1.2)
gherkin (2.1.2, 2.0.2)
json_pure (1.4.3)
launchy (0.3.5)
mysql (2.8.1)
nokogiri (1.4.2)
paperclip (2.3.3)
pickle (0.3.0)
rack (1.2.1, 1.1.0)
rack-test (0.5.4)
rails (2.3.8)
rake (0.8.7)
rspec (1.3.0)
rspec-rails (1.3.2)
syntax (1.0.0)
term-ansicolor (1.0.5)
thoughtbot-factory_girl (1.2.2)
trollop (1.16.2)
webrat (0.7.1)
ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [i486-linux]
gem 1.3.7
running on Ubuntu
What can I do to make my cucumber steps pass!
Thanks for any help

Answer 1

instead of the line
flash[:notice] = "Login successful!"
redirect_to root_url
just try rendering it instead of redirecting it.
flash[:notice] = "Login successful!"
render :action => :root_url
in doing this, it seems to remember flash[:notice]
i could not get --> redirect_to root_url, :flash => { :notice => 'not found' }, :notice => Login successful!' <-- to work at all

Answer 2

Looks like rails 2.3.8 has changed the method in which is displays notices..
redirect_to(root_url, :notice => 'Login successful!')
might be what you're looking for.

Answer 3

I believe this issue will be fixed in Rails 2.3.9. It has to do with setting both a cookie and a session in the same request. See this ticket for details.
In the meantime you can use this gist as a temporary fix.

Answer 4

thanks to raynb who pointed me into the right direction. But unfurtunatly this solution did not work but I found this page which puts everything in cucumber.rb... which mad it running now ...
https://webrat.lighthouseapp.com/projects/10503-webrat/tickets/383-reset_session-and-webrat-dont-play-nicely-with-one-another