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How to access cookies in helper specification?

I cannot figure out how to verify that a cookie was set when testing my helper method.

Hypothetical auxiliary method:

def my_helper(k,v)
    cookies[k] = v
end

Test:

it 'should set cookies' do  
  helper.my_helper("foo", "bar")
  helper.cookies["foo"].should == "bar" #nil
  helper.response.cookies["foo"].should == "bar" #nil
end

Does anyone know how to do this?

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Substituting a simple rspec mock for CookieJar works if you want:

helper.stubs(:cookies => cookies = mock)
cookies.expects(:[]=).with('foo', 'bar')
helper.my_helper('foo', 'bar')
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I'm on rails 3.2 and rspec 2.8. Despite the fact that rspec docs says that for me this works in the request specification (i.e. Integration Test).

it 'should set cookies' do  
  cookies['foo'] = 'bar'
  visit "/"
  cookies['foo'].should == 'bar'
end
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request cookie via

 helper.request.cookies[:awesome] = "something"
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