RSpec in Rails: How to skip a before_filter?

To skip the before filter:

controller.class.skip_before_filter :name_of_method_used_as_before_filter

The one caveat (mentioned the docs) is that this will only work for method-reference filters, not procs.

Alternatively, you could stub current_user.has_role?

describe SomeModelsController, "GET to index (functional)" do  before(:each) do    controller.current_user.stub!(:has_role?).and_return(true)  end  it "should find all Models" do    Model.should_receive(:find).with(:all)  endend

Old question, but I had to solve this just recently. This will only work for Rails 3.1, for earlier versions you should replace _process_action_callbacks with filter_chain (untested)

You can simply delete a matching Proc from the filter chain like so (Test::Unit example):

class RandomControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase  def setup    @controller.class._process_action_callbacks.each do |f|      @controller.class._process_action_callbacks.delete(f) if f.raw_filter.to_s.match(/**<match for your proc>**/)    end  endend

How about just not doing a GET request?Try calling the controller method by itself.

controller.index