rspec-rails: fixture_file_upload cannot find files in request specs

Steps to to reproduce (using rails 4.2.5.1):

rails new fixture_file_upload
cd fixture_file_upload
echo "gem 'rspec-rails', '~> 3.0'" >> Gemfile
bundle
rails generate rspec:install
mkdir -p spec/fixtures/files
touch spec/fixtures/files/test.jpg
mkdir spec/requests

Create spec/requests/test_spec.rb with the following contents:

require 'rails_helper'

describe 'test', type: :request do
  it 'tests' do
    fixture_file_upload('test.jpg')
  end
end

rake

Failures:

  1) test tests
     Failure/Error: fixture_file_upload('test.jpg')

     RuntimeError:
       test.jpg file does not exist

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 8 years ago
Reactions: 2
Comments: 19 (4 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

created mini app as specified in https://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails/issues/1554#issue-134479615 — committed to Andy-Bell/fixture_file_upload by Andy-Bell 8 years ago

Most upvoted comments

The include ActionDispatch::TestProcess section works for me using Rails 5.0.0.1 and RSpec rails - 3.5.2.

Thanks!

lysender on Oct 9, 2016

For what it’s worth, in case this is blocking people, passing an absolute path does work:

fixture_file_upload("#{fixture_path}/files/image.jpg")

Seems like ActionDispatch::TestProcess doesn’t have access to fixture_path so it won’t be able to prepend it to the passed file path.

Also, it’s probably obvious to everybody else, but you have to explicitly put it under the params key, you can’t path it through the path (duh):


RSpec.describe 'POST /uploads' do
  let(:file) { fixture_file_upload("#{fixture_path}/files/image.jpg") }

  it 'works' do
    post uploads_path,
      params: { uploads: { file: file } }
  end

  it 'fails' do
    post uploads_path(uploads: { file: file })
  end
end

midu on Aug 27, 2016

Same problem here. I found out the following while poking around:

#fixture_file_upload uses fixture_path only if self.class.respond_to?(:fixture_path) returns true (see https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/4-2-stable/actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/testing/test_process.rb#L38)
If I add p self.class, self.class.respond_to?(:fixture_path) to my example it prints RSpec::ExampleGroups::FoobarExample, true. So far, so good.
However, if I add the same line directly in the #fixture_file_upload method it prints ActionDispatch::Integration::Session, false.

So somehow the context inside fixture_file_upload seems to be wrong?

noniq on Jun 16, 2016

can be closed

11factory on Apr 19, 2018