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How do you POST to a URL in Capybara?

Asked 2010-11-03T04:23:18.290
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Just switched from Cucumber+Webrat to Cucumber+Capybara and I am wondering how you can POST content to a URL in Capybara.

In Cucumber+Webrat I was able to have a step:

When /^I send "([^\"]*)" to "([^\"]*)"$/ do |file, project|
  proj = Project.find(:first, :conditions => "name='#{project}'")
  f = File.new(File.join(::Rails.root.to_s, file))
  visit "project/" + proj.id.to_s + "/upload",
        :post, {:upload_path => File.join(::Rails.root.to_s, file)}
end

However, the Capybara documentation mentions:

The visit method only takes a single parameter, the request method is always GET.always GET.

How do I modify my step so that Cucumber+Capybara does a POST to the URL?

ruby-on-rails cucumber webrat capybara
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You could do this:

rack_test_session_wrapper = Capybara.current_session.driver
rack_test_session_wrapper.submit :post, your_path, nil
  • You can replace :post which whatever method you care about e.g. :put or :delete.
  • Replace your_path with the Rails path you want e.g. rack_test_session_wrapper.submit :delete, document_path(Document.last), nil would delete the last Document in my app.
answered 2012-03-08T11:48:32.207

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