Erik A. Hanson's Weblog

Here’s a little Ruby client for storing data in Angular, a system for creating simple database-backed web apps extremely easily.

#!/usr/bin/ruby

require ‘rubygems’
require ‘httpclient’
require ‘json’

class Angular
def initialize(username, password, library)
@http = HTTPClient.new
@library = library
post(“/login”, :email => username, :password => password)
end

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I wrote a web app on top of Rack that includes the ability to accept file uploads. It took some time to figure out how to successfully test the file upload using Rack::Test.
The trick was to encode the file exactly correctly, and then post it with the correct headers. I wrote a simple post_file [...]