pepe wrote in post #1019809: > Hi, > > I am working on a mobile app that sends a post with a file (a picture) > "embedded" in the body of the request. I >
What does that mean? ALL post requests contain the data in the body of the request. > it is not inside a parameter, > it is inside of the body. > What does that mean? Are you saying that the html element for the file upload doesn't have a name attribute? Well, then give it one. > A simplified example of a curl statement to > simulate what the request does could be this: > > curl -X POST my_path --data-binary my_file > > When the request gets to the controller the contents of the file can > be retrieved like this: > > str = self.request.body.read > I think that would be a raw dump of what's in the body of the request, which is different than what's in the file. > I can run my tests running a server and outside of rspec and directing > curl requests to localhost Huh? What are you trying to test specifically? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
