How can download of files be tested? The processing of the file is
being
tested okay, but I don’t know how to simulate the controller call.
TIA,
Jeffrey
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Jeffrey L. Taylor
[email protected]wrote:
How can download of files be tested? The processing of the file is being
tested okay, but I don’t know how to simulate the controller call.
What are you using to test? This is a bit off your topic as it sounds
like
you are writing controller specific tests. I used to do that, but in the
last year I have started convering my ui and views heavily with testing
and
since doing this I find that I can achieve reasonably also testing the
controller actions. I am sure some will argue against this but in the
interest in time and quality I think I get more bang for my time
covering
how the user will use my ui. That said, I use rspec with capybara
(steak)
and using capybara, if there is a download link, I just click the link
and
then look at the page.body which gives me the content of the downloaded
file.
I know you should be able to do so in a controller spec/test also,
should be
something like calling a get. I am not sure what your method is but if
it
has multiple formats then you would have to specify the format in a
parameter I think, or do something like “get
'/controller/action/file.pdf”
or something like that. I would google for ‘rails test file download’,
it
looks like you will have some results you can at least piece together.
Quoting David K. [email protected]:
controller actions. I am sure some will argue against this but in the
or something like that. I would google for ‘rails test file download’, it
looks like you will have some results you can at least piece together.
Oops, I have the directions backwards. I need to simulate/test upload
of a
file. The user is uploading their RSS feeds in an OPML file (typically
exported from Google Reader). I expected this to be an obscure
question, so I
didn’t Google it. It isn’t. There are several answers on Stack
Overflow and
elsewhere. I sucessfully used the answer at the URL below. Note, this
has
changed in Rails 3. There is a link to the Rails 3 answer in the
footnote to
the first answer.
Jeffrey