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Frank  
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 More options May 4 2010, 2:22 pm
From: Frank <francisco.li...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:22:29 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Tues, May 4 2010 2:22 pm
Subject: [webrat] Getting A String Instead Of An Array
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Hi Guys,

I'm new to webrat and I've encountered a problem. I have a nested form
that I've created using the steps similar to the Rails Casts
http://railscasts.com/episodes/75-complex-forms-part-3

As context, I have a form for programming exercises with a title and
description. The form also has fields for the associated Hint object,
just a regular text area field for the hint text.

When I submit a form using webrat and cucumber my application receives
'params' with:

     "new_hint_attributes"=>"[{\"text\"=>\"This is hint 1\"}]"

The key 'new_hint_attributes' maps to a string causing the application
to crash during a cucumber test.

But when I submit the form using the browser my application receives
'params' with:

     "new_hint_attributes"=>[{"text"=>"This is hint 1"}]

The key 'new_hint_attributes' maps to an array and everything works
fine.

I was wondering what I might be doing wrong.

Also, I was wondering if this ticket my be related:
https://webrat.lighthouseapp.com/projects/10503/tickets/259-webratmec...

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Damian Janowski  
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 More options May 6 2010, 9:29 pm
From: Damian Janowski <damian.janow...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 22:29:52 -0300
Local: Thurs, May 6 2010 9:29 pm
Subject: Re: [webrat] Getting A String Instead Of An Array
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Maybe you can create a gist with the relevant parts of your app and
tests so that we can reproduce it?

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Frank  
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 More options May 7 2010, 2:22 am
From: Frank <francisco.li...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 23:22:08 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Fri, May 7 2010 2:22 am
Subject: [webrat] Re: Getting A String Instead Of An Array
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Right, excuse me.

Here are the relevant code snippets

http://gist.github.com/393116

Here is the entire html generated by the template

http://gist.github.com/393134

Notice that all the array params are strings instead of arrays in
'params' but all the hashed stay hashes.

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 More options May 10 2010, 5:45 pm
From: Frank <francisco.li...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 14:45:52 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, May 10 2010 5:45 pm
Subject: [webrat] Re: Getting A String Instead Of An Array
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I've made some slight progress towards solving this. I switched from
Ruby 1.9.1 to ruby 1.8.7 and it solved the issue for several nested
file fields.
However, now I'm struggling with nested 'file_field'(s). I'm using
webrat 0.7.1, cucumber 0.7.2, rails 2.3.5 and ruby 1.8.7-p249

It is the same kind of error. I'm expecting an array of file fields in
'params'

 'key'=>["#<ActionController::TestUploadedFile:0x267bec8>"]

but instead I get one string that looks like:

 key=>"#<ActionController::TestUploadedFile:0x267bec8>"

I tried writing a few webrat specs to try and reproduce the problem
but I haven't had any luck. I was wondering if anyone is familiar with
what can cause "Expecting array but getting string" type errors.

I'm experiencing something similar to this closed ticket:
https://webrat.lighthouseapp.com/projects/10503/tickets/341-attach_fi...

And this past post:
http://groups.google.com/group/webrat/browse_thread/thread/a08a1cf4e8...

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 More options May 11 2010, 6:07 pm
From: Frank <francisco.li...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 15:07:58 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi Guys,

I've been trying to figure this out for a few days now. To better
describe what I'm experiencing
I've created a very simple github rails project at http://github.com/flsafe/test

Check out the README on the github project page.

This project has just two models. A user and and Image. A user has
many images.

To see what I'm talking about one would clone the project with:

   git clone g...@github.com:flsafe/test.git

Then run:

   rake cucumber

The output will contain a description of the values I'm expecting in
the
'params' variable in the controller.

I know it's a lot to ask to checkout the project. I'm sure everyone is
very busy.
But I would really appreciate it after trying to figure this out for a
few days.

Thanks

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 More options May 12 2010, 4:28 am
From: Matt Wynne <m...@mattwynne.net>
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 09:28:14 +0100
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Subject: Re: [webrat] Re: Getting A String Instead Of An Array
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On 11 May 2010, at 23:07, Frank wrote:

Just quickly Frank, you might have more luck with Capybara. It's basically a re-write of Webrat with a very similar API, but there seems to be a more active community around it.

I would try using capybara and see if your problem goes away. Then I'd try asking the capybara mailing list for help. There are a lot more people active in there.

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 More options May 14 2010, 12:26 pm
From: Damian Janowski <djanow...@dimaion.com>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 13:26:52 -0300
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Subject: Re: [webrat] Re: Getting A String Instead Of An Array
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On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Frank <francisco.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys,

> I've been trying to figure this out for a few days now. To better
> describe what I'm experiencing
> I've created a very simple github rails project at http://github.com/flsafe/test

Hello Frank,

Thanks for providing a repo for the test.

After a couple of hours debugging this isssue, I added a branch that
shows that the behavior you're trying to use actually works. However,
in your sample app, you're using what I think is a strange flavor of
fields_for. Although I haven't done any Rails in a while, the docs
show that the usage should be like this:
http://github.com/brynary/webrat/blob/rails_attach_file/spec/integrat...

Can you please check if there's anything missing in the branch I
created? http://github.com/brynary/webrat/blob/rails_attach_file
Note that under ./spec/integration/rails there's a fully fledged Rails
app that tests Webrat's integration with Rails.

If you see anything missing that would cause the integration test to
break, please provide a patch for the branch and we'll look into it.

Thank you.

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