I’ve read through the messages on this list, and have file upload
specs working in my model and controller tests, using :file =>
ActionController::TestUploadedFile.new(filepath)
But its not working in stories using webrat. I’ve tried
fills_in “foo[file]”, :with => filepath
and
fills_in “foo[file]”, :with => ActionController::TestUploadedFile.new
(filepath)
both fail (0) when submit
clicks_button ‘Update’
oddly, in either case, a browser get opened, with something like
file:///Users/jonathan/rails/myproject/tmp/webrat-1220026536.html
which is blank
suggestions?
thx
linoj
Jonathan L. wrote:
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I haven’t been able to get the webrat uploading method (attaches_file)
to work… If you haven’t tried that method give it a shot, but I
haven’t gotten it to work. To upload in stories I have done this:
csv_file = …
file_to_upload = ActionController::TestUploadedFile.new(csv_file.path,
Mime::CSV)
post my_path, “import_file” => file_to_upload
In my story I didn’t have other fields in the form so I didn’t bother to
investigate why webrat wasn’t working… the clear disadvantage of the
way I used is that I’m doing the post directly.
-Ben
On Aug 29, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Ben M. wrote:
ActionController::TestUploadedFile.new(filepath)
thx
haven’t gotten it to work. To upload in stories I have done this:
csv_file = …
file_to_upload = ActionController::TestUploadedFile.new(csv_file.path,
Mime::CSV)
post my_path, “import_file” => file_to_upload
i am trying that too, but at this point in my story i dont actually
have the current record object to generate the form action path.
How would i extract the :action = path from the in the current
response.body ?
On Aug 29, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Jonathan L. wrote:
i am trying that too, but at this point in my story i dont actually
have the current record object to generate the form action path.
How would i extract the :action = path from the in the
current response.body ?
got it
#assuming only one form on the page
path = response.body.match(/action=\"([^"]+)\"/)[1]
still, i dont like bypassing webrat though
I too would suggest trying attaches_file. I use it in a few different
stories I have, and it works fine for me. I don’t believe I’m doing
anything nonstandard. Here’s the basics of what one of mine looks like
(stripped out some fills_in’s, etc. to declutter the example):
When “create a new hotel with photo from a ‘$source’” do |source|
visits new_location_path
fills_in ‘Name’, :with => ‘Maui’
attaches_file ‘location_photo’, File.join(Rails.root, ‘stories’,
‘fixtures’, ‘BigPizza.jpg’)
clicks_button ‘Save’
end
When Webrat matches ‘Exception caught’ on the get/post response body it
tries to save the response body down as a html file and then invokes
opening it in a browser (I believe the opening only works on OS X though
I’ve never tested it in another os).
This is a very useful feature unless you get a blank page 
I’ve had blank errors before which I’ve suspect was a bug but I never
got around to looking at why they did not contain the response body.
oddly, in either case, a browser get opened, with something like
file:///Users/jonathan/rails/myproject/tmp/webrat-1220026536.html
which is blank
–
Joseph W.
http://www.joesniff.co.uk
On Aug 29, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Christopher B. wrote:
I too would suggest trying attaches_file. I use it in a few
different stories I have, and it works fine for me. I don’t
believe I’m doing anything nonstandard. Here’s the basics of what
yep, works for me 
thx
This topic might be a little bit old, but since I run into this issue
recently here’s the solution:
Due to a lack of multipart form support for integration tests in Action
Pack Webrat’s attach_file does not work with Rails 2.0.2.
I posted a workaround on our blog:
http://devblog.imedo.de/2009/9/2/file-uploads-with-webrat-in-ruby-on-rails-2-0-2.
In case there are other people trying to do the same thing, webrat’s
implementation of attach_file has changed somewhat. See this URL for the
current method to attach a file in your multipart form:
To summarize, syntax is
attach_file (field_locator, path, content_type = nil)
There is no need to call File.join or File.open, just specify the
relative path.