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

The post method expects a hash of name-value pairs, so you'll need to do something like this:

post :index, :data => '{"foo":"bar", "bool":true}'

Then, in your controller, get the data to be parsed like this:

post_data = params[:data]