Ruby on Rails

Quoting David Kahn <dk@structuralartistry.com>:
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Jeffrey L. Taylor <ror@abluz.dyndns.org>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.
>

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

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