How to post JSON data in rails 3 functional test

Question

I plan to use JSON data in both request and response in my project and having some problems in testing.

After searching for a while, I find the following code which uses

Answer 1

The best answer I can come up with to this is you don't

Whether or not it was intentional it s maybe good that rails doesn't implement this for you.

In functional tests you really want to just test your controller and not rails method of deserialization or even that routing and mime detection are all setup correctly, those all fall under an IntegrationTest.

So for your controllers, don't pass JSON just pass your params hash like you normally would. Maybe adding :format as an argument as well if you need to check that and respond differently.

If you want to test the full stack move to an IntegrationTest