[Ruby] sending POST/PUT/DELETE requests via cucumber steps in a Rails app

[Giuseppe Bertini]

I my Rails app, I want features describing what happens if a user sends an invalid request bypassing the UI (say, submitting a forged form).

I know how to do this with controller rspecs, but I would like to test the full stack with cucumber, and obviously I cannot "visit pages" or "click buttons" to trigger the expected behavior (e.g. redirecting to the root path).

How can I write a step that does the equivalent to what the following does in rspec

delete :destroy, id: 2

I must be missing something obvious, but I cannot seem to find this info in the Cucumber Book or elsewhere.

Thanks,

Giuseppe

[Andy]

Use RestClient or a similar HTTP library.

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[Aslak Hellesøy]

This is explained in the REST chapter in the book.

Aslak

Thanks,

Giuseppe

[Giuseppe Bertini]

Thanks Andy & Aslak,

I am now trying the "in-process" approach with rack-test.

Quick question: when I call a rack-test method such as post, does it know about the ongoing session?

I mean, does it know that during the previous steps I successfully logged in (which is required before I can post anything).

Or are the capybara steps and the rack-test calls sort of independent of one another?

Because right now those rack-test requests do not cause any errors but seem to do absolutely nothing.

I suspect that even the way I formulate the questions gives away a fundamental lack of understanding of the process...

Sorry, and thanks in advance.

Giuseppe