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

Using Rails 4, I was looking to do this to test the processing of raw xml that was being posted to the controller. I was able to do it by just providing the string to the post:

raw_xml = File.read("my_raw.xml")
post :message, raw_xml, format: :xml

I believe if the parameter provided is a string, it just gets passed along to the controller as the body.