Ruby OpenID Test Server (ROTS), a dummy OpenID server that makes consumer tests dead easy. ↑

ROTS is a minimal implementation of an OpenID server, developed on top of the Rack middleware, this server provides an easy to use interface to make testing OpenID consumers really easy.

No more mocks ↑

Have you always wanted to test the authentication of an OpenID consumer implementation, but find your self in a point where is to hard to mock? A lot of people have been there.

With ROTS, you only need to specify an identity url provided by the dummy server, passing with it a flag saying that you want the authentication to be successful. It handles SREG extensions as well.

How does it works ↑

When you install the ROTS gem, a binary called rots is provided for starting the server (for more info about what options you have when executing this file, check the -h option).

By default, rots will have a test user called “John Doe”, with an OpenID identity “john.doe”. If you want to use your own test user name, you can specify a config file to rots. The default configuration file looks like this:

# Default configuration file identity: john.doe sreg:

nickname: jdoe
fullname: John Doe
email: jhon@doe.com
dob: 1985-09-21
gender: M

You can specify a new config file using the option –config.

Getting Started ↑

The best way to get started, is running the rots server, and then starting to execute your OpenID consumer tests/specs. You just have to specify the identity url of your test user, if you want the OpenID response be successful just add the openid.success=true flag to the user identity url. If you don't specify the flag it will return a cancel response instead.

Example:

it “should authenticate with OpenID” do

post("/consumer_openid_login", 'identity_url' => 'http://localhost:1132/john.doe?openid.success=true')

end

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