Has anyone used curb (ruby curl) with cucumber?

[doug livesey]

Hi -- I'm finding that post() is serialising my json data badly, so for that and other reasons, I want to use curl to test my web service in cucumber.

(I'm using capybara, btw.)

The problem is, on a service that I already know is working fine, I'm getting this in the body of the failed attempt to post:

  "The requested URL /mobile_app/timesheet_uploads.json was not found on this server."

The code that generates that error is:

  curl = Curl::Easy.new( mobile_app_timesheet_uploads_url( :format => "json" ) )

  curl.http_post( { upload_data: @upload_data }.to_json )

  puts curl.body_str

From my (admittedly weak) understanding of what happens in cucumber, this should work, so I'm stumped.

Can anyone advise me on how to get this to work?

Any & all help appreciated,

   Doug.

[Rob Holland]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:54 AM, doug livesey <bio...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi -- I'm finding that post() is serialising my json data badly, so for that
> and other reasons, I want to use curl to test my web service in cucumber.
> (I'm using capybara, btw.)

Doug,

You might try using my branch at
http://github.com/robholland/capybara/tree/headers and see if post
then behaves as you expected. I had a very similar issue, so I wired
up get/post/delete/put into the capybara session for the rack driver
so they behave sensibly. Also note that if you're posting JSON you'll
want to pass { 'CONTENT_TYPE' => 'application/json' } for the env
argument to the post call so that the app knows to expect JSON data.

Cheers,

Rob

[doug livesey]

Cheers, Rob -- I'll give that a bash, now -- is it easy enough to swap in?

   Doug.

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[doug livesey]

I just cloned it and rake installed it, so will let you know how I get on -- thanks again.

   Doug.

[doug livesey]

Ah, damn' -- I'm using RVM, and the rake install task wants to do it with root privileges, which won't work, and the install local gem command fails as I haven't access to the ./Capybara folder or file (wherever that is).

Cheers,

   Doug.