Quick Tip: Testing Multipart Uploads with RSpec

I couldn’t find this practically anywhere, so I thought I’d write a quick post on how to test multi-part uploads with RSpec. The problem is that if you try to write something like:

post :photo, :file => File.open(path)

You’ll actually be sending the string “" down as a request parameter. What you actually want is a bit more obscure, but works perfectly:

post :photo, :file => Rack::Test::UploadedFile.new(path, mime_type) # text/jpg