You can do it from the rails console. From the command line goto the directory of your rails application and type rails console. Then enter the following code to create a user: user=User.create!(:email=>'[email protected]’,:username=>’test’,:password=>’password’) This will create a user object (assuming your devise resource is called User). Now you can use the user object that you … Read more
@pschuegr’s own answer got me across the line. For completeness, this is what I did that gets me easily set up for both request specs and controller specs (using FactoryGirl for creating the user instance): in /spec/support/sign_in_support.rb: #module for helping controller specs module ValidUserHelper def signed_in_as_a_valid_user @user ||= FactoryGirl.create :user sign_in @user # method from … Read more
You need to setup Ability object: ability = Ability.new(current_user_object) Now you check authorization: ability.can? :read, object_to_be_checked current_user_object: User object for which you want to check authorization object_to_be_checked: is object on which you want to check authorization
There’s a wiki entry at github for this: https://github.com/ryanb/cancan/wiki/ability-for-other-users You need to change your User model like this: class User < ActiveRecord::Base def ability @ability ||= Ability.new(self) end delegate :can?, :cannot?, :to => :ability end Then you can check abilities like this: user.can?(:update,@article)