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attach a file in Capybara

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n350071🇯🇵 ・ Sep 11 '19

#rails

🤔 Situation

You want to atach a file to the input tag.

<label for='data-file'>Data File</label>
<input type="file" name="files" id="attach_files">
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👍 Usual solution

Capybara::Node::Actions#attach_file

attach_file('data-file', 'path/to/file.csv')
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🦄 Workaround solution 

find('form input[type="file"]').set('path/to/file.csv')
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📚 Attach A File With Capybara - Today I Learned

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