Rails capybara cookies issue

Question

How to work with cookies inside capybara?

in my application_helper.rb i have method with cookies

def user_currency(currency)
 cookies[:user_currency] = currency
end

but when i want to use this method in my test

it returns me

undefined local variable or method `cookies' for #<RSpec::ExampleGroups

How to handle it?

Answer 1

Cookie manipulation is different for each Capybara driver. The easiest solution is to use the show_me_the_cookies gem which provides a unified API. Note that with some drivers you can only set cookies for domains you are currently visiting.