Whilst trying out Authlogic for a new project, I realized I was scooting ahead with a lot of *gasp* untested code. What would Kent Beck say? A quick google search somewhere along the lines of "rails rspec authlogic OMGWTFBBQ" netted this great tutorial from Mathieu. I didnt bother with the resource_controller, but I can confirm the thoughtbot-factory_girl / authlogic / rspec / rspec-rails combo works nicely.