Ruby on Rails

pepe wrote in post #1019809:
> Hi,
>
> I am working on a mobile app that sends a post with a file (a picture)
> "embedded" in the body of the request. I
>

What does that mean? ALL post requests contain the data in the body of
the request.

> it is not inside a parameter,
> it is inside of the body.
>

What does that mean? Are you saying that the html element for the file
upload doesn't have a name attribute? Well, then give it one.

> A simplified example of a curl statement to
> simulate what the request does could be this:
>
> curl -X POST my_path --data-binary my_file
>
> When the request gets to the controller the contents of the file can
> be retrieved like this:
>
> str = self.request.body.read
>

I think that would be a raw dump of what's in the body of the request,
which is different than what's in the file.

> I can run my tests running a server and outside of rspec and directing
> curl requests to localhost

Huh? What are you trying to test specifically?

--
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group.
To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.