Using multipart/form-data when calling 'post' in tests

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Hi, Has anyone used ActionController::Integration::Session#post in their integration tests to post multipart/form-data encoded parameters? eg     my_session.post url , encoded_string , headers where 'headers' includes the content-type and content-length.

Is there a library which will help generate this encoded string in ruby? eg Net::HTTP::Post or something in rails?

I've started looking at RFC 2046, and various fragments people have posted in the past - but I live in hope.

Regards, Daniel

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Daniel Bush wrote:

Hi, Has anyone used ActionController::Integration::Session#post in their integration tests to post multipart/form-data encoded parameters? eg     my_session.post url , encoded_string , headers where 'headers' includes the content-type and content-length.

Is there a library which will help generate this encoded string in ruby? eg Net::HTTP::Post or something in rails?

I've started looking at RFC 2046, and various fragments people have posted in the past - but I live in hope.

Regards, Daniel

Ok, to answer my own post in part: If you're going to write your own multipart/form-data encoding routine, then remember these 2 things: 1) prepend the boundary string with 2 dashes '--' when using it 2) don't forget to append 2 dashes on the end of the last boundary

May as well post what I did:

In an integration test: