Question

I’m using fixtures and I’m running a test where I need to access a URL of a file from a certain person. I don’t want to go over the internet to fetch this everytime so I have downloaded the file and put it in my test directory "/test/sample/somefile.html".

How do I write the local path in my fixture file so I can access file_path within my test.

#BEFORE
three: 
 id: 3
 user: Joey
 file_path: http://www.google.com/somefile.html
 last_modified:



#AFTER
three: 
 id: 3
 user: Joey
 file_path: <%= "./test/sample/somefile.html" %>
 last_modified:

Answer 1

Do:

three: 
  id: 3
  user: Joey
  file_path: <%= "#{Rails.root}/test/sample/somefile.html" %>
  last_modified:

Or use RAILS_ROOT if you have an old version of Rails.