Ruby on Rails

On Sep 2, 2:46 pm, pepe <P...@BetterRPG.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am working on a mobile app that sends a post with a file (a picture)
> "embedded" in the body of the request. It is not inside a parameter,
> it is inside of the body. 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
>

Looking at the code in action pack, looks like you'll have to setup
the contents of

request.env['rack.input']

(not entirely sure what with)

Fred
> I can run my tests running a server and outside of rspec and directing
> curl requests to localhost but that slows down the tests considerably.
> I need to reproduce what the curl statement does from within my tests
> and using only the server that rspec starts but I don't know how.
> Nothing that I have tried has worked and I am kind of running out of
> time. My latest idea (not fully explored yet) is to work with the
> request object itself before running the POST statement but I have not
> found a way to load the body with the binary contents of a file yet
> and I am not sure this will actually even work.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you

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