How do you POST to a URL in Capybara?

Question

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 ste

Answer 1

Capybara's visit only does GET requests. This is by design.

For a user to perform a POST, he must click a button or submit a form. There is no other way of doing this with a browser.

The correct way to test this behaviour would be:

visit "project/:id/edit" # This will only GET
attach_file "photo", File.open('cute_photo.jpg')
click_button 'Upload' # This will POST

If you want to test an API, I recommend using spec/request instead of cucumber, but that's just me.