Saturday 09 May 2009
Cucumber + Paperclip
I just spent an inordinately long time trying to figure out how to get Cucumber tests to create records with Paperclip files attached. Those of you with an equally troglodytic IQ may thus find this snippet useful. The idea here, which is probably obvious, is that I have an upload-files folder in my Cucumber features folder in the root of the Rails application. I put the required sample files there. Be warned that this is actually saving the files to your public folder and they w... More
Wednesday 29 April 2009
Rails before_ callbacks must return true gotcha
Spent a heck of a long time trying to figure out why my Cucumber tests were failing this afternoon. I assumed it had to do with an API key problem (this test/model involved a spam checking service) until I discovered that “If a before_* callback returns false, all the later callbacks and the associated action are cancelled.” Cucumber was providing no feedback, and I was having no such problems when using the site myself. So I finally discovered, thanks to some other poor souls who w... More