Testing data from a file

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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

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Simon Macneall 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 http://julik.textdriven.com/svn/tools/rails_plugins/upload_mock/ ), 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.

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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