How to send raw post data in a Rails functional test?

Question

I\'m looking to send raw post data (e.g. unparamaterized JSON) to one of my controllers for testing:

class LegacyOrderUpdateControllerTest < ActionControl         


        

Answer 1

I actually solved the same issues just adding one line before simulating the rspec post request. What you do is to populate the "RAW_POST_DATA". I tried to remove the attributes var on the post :create, but if I do so, it do not find the action.

Here my solution.

def do_create(attributes)
  request.env['RAW_POST_DATA'] = attributes.to_json
  post :create, attributes
end 

In the controller the code you need to read the JSON is something similar to this

  @property = Property.new(JSON.parse(request.body.read))