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Replies for: Ah, you're right. I've switched those asserts around. I am mostly writing my tests in RSpec, with RSpec-Rails, at the moment. Their documentation ...

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Chad Lee B. • • Edited

Update: I've figured out how to make it work in my tests ( was having weird issues but application related, not rails related)

Basically to make this work in Rails/minitest, one would do:

jar = ActionDispatch::Cookies::CookieJar.build(request, response.cookies)
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We would need to use response.cookies. No need to add .to_hash because response.cookies is already a hash.

Unlike Rspec, cookies in Minitest ( or Rails custom version of minitest) always refer to the request cookies which is an instance of Rack::Test::CookieJar

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Edward Sparks • • Edited

This is the answer I have been looking for. I had originally used

jar = ActionDispatch::Cookies::CookieJar.build(request, cookies.to_hash).signed
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But realised late on that the cookies.to_hash was empty as I never set cookies in Rack::Test::CookieJar

Thank you for this