Upload file with Mechanize for Ruby

Question

File upload does not work using:

form.file_upload_with(:name => 'image[1]').file_name = '/tmp/image.jpg'
form.submit

This is an out-of-date example: https://github.com/sparklemotion/mechanize/blob/master/examples/flickr_upload.rb

I tried this on two different sites.

I'm using Mechanize 2.6.0.

"....file_name = '/tmp/image.jpg'" return string with file name; "form.submit" return page after submit, page so that I did not choose the file — Neschur
– Neschur, Commented Mar 30, 2013 at 14:00

lmika · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-23 08:41:31Z

9

Slightly off-topic, but another way to upload files with Mechanize I found useful, particularly if you don't have a HTML form handy, is to just use Mechanize.post with a File instance:

a = Mechanize.new
a.post(url, {
    "file1" => File.new("/tmp/image.jpg")
})

answered Feb 23, 2014 at 8:41

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Antonio · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-27 06:01:59Z

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Try this:

file = File.join( APP_ROOT, 'tmp', 'image.jpg')
form.file_uploads.first.file_name = file

edited Aug 27, 2013 at 6:01

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answered Aug 27, 2013 at 5:43

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gmaliar · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-30 14:16:55Z

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Try:

form_with(:method => /POST/) do |form|
    form.file_uploads.first.file_name = '/tmp/image.jpg'
end.submit

answered Mar 30, 2013 at 14:16

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Neschur Over a year ago

did not help, this is equivalent

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