Testing data from a file

Rails
1

Hi,

I have some functional tests that require XML input that gets set into
the
RAW_POST_DATA. I would like to get the XML for each tests from files (to
save having lots of XML in my test.rb. Is there anything in the testing
framework to handle this, or should I just load the file manually?

Cheers
Simon

2

Simon M. wrote:

I have some functional tests that require XML input that gets set into the
RAW_POST_DATA. I would like to get the XML for each tests from files (to
save having lots of XML in my test.rb. Is there anything in the testing
framework to handle this, or should I just load the file manually?

If you mean the data comes as a file upload, look up the upload_mock
plugin (
posserbly
textdriven.com - textdriven Resources and Information. ),
and add an XML mimetype to it. We use it to test paperclip (which is the
best
way to store uploaded files we have seen so far):

def test_upload_one_document
image = MockUpload.new(“image.pdf”)
owner = owners(:a_document_owner)

 doc = assert_latest owner.documents do
   post :edit_owner, :owner_id => owner.id, :document => image
 end

 assert{ doc.image_file_name =~ /image.pdf/ }

end

If you don’t mean that, then just write a folder in test/fixtures and
put XML
files in it, then write a test helper method to load them into your
params.

–
Phlip

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On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:31:06 +0900, Phlip [email protected] wrote:

If you don’t mean that, then just write a folder in test/fixtures and
put XML
files in it, then write a test helper method to load them into your
params.

Yeah, that’s what I meant. That’s basically what I ended up doing, but I
was wondering if there was any test helpers already, or if there was a
‘best practise’ way of doing it.

Cheers
Simon