Rails 3.1.0 File Upload Rspec Test

rubyonrails-talk
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I'm having this odd problem that I encountered, today. I want to check that when I upload a CSV file that it does import some records into a DB. Problem is that sometimes when I run RSpec it seems that it wants to read the uploaded file as a string, rather than an object that I am sending with a post request. Here's a gist of my code:

https://gist.github.com/1187861

With Rails 3.0.10 these specs ALL run without a problem. But with Rails 3.1.0 it seems to fail for just those 2 specs, but I am confused because they are basically copied and pasted with each other. So why is it that sometimes it wants to read this posted object as a String?

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Earlier versions of rails let you put arbitrary objects in the params hash, even though in the real world you could never get such params. Rails 3.1 changes this. One side effect is that you need to use stuff like fixture_file_upload if you want to send in files

Fred