Upload a file ruby using selenium

Question

I want to upload a file from remote url in ruby using selenium

My tools:-

watir-webdriver
selenium-webdriver

Upload a file:-

browser.file_field(:id, 'file').set("https://www.google.co.in/logos/doodles/2015/holi-festival-2015-5124794139803648-hp.gif")

Error:-

Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - https://www.google.co.in/logos/doodles/2015/holi-festival-2015-5124794139803648-hp.gif

alecxe · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-06 06:41:46Z

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The value of an upload input field should be an absolute path to the file on your local machine, not a URL. Download the image first.

answered Mar 6, 2015 at 6:41

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Galet Over a year ago

Is there anyway to upload a file directly from remote url.

alecxe Over a year ago

@karan well, could you please explain why don't you want to download the file and use it's local location to set the input value? You can download the file just before setting the input field value in the same script..

Paweł Dawczak Over a year ago

I strongly advise against using remote file in your tests. Test should be able to run in any circumstances, thus you should not rely on any thing you don't contain (like API calls, eg. to twitter, or mentioned files). This is just mean as a bad pattern on which many failed. In your situation I would recommend as @alecxe suggested. You may download the file and put it in fixtures directory, and make your tests more reliable.

Galet Over a year ago

@alecxe Thanks i will download file from remote and use it.

Galet Over a year ago

@alecxe How to read image file from remote. Will this work. where i have to mention source and destination path. require 'open-uri' open('image.png', 'wb') do |file| file << open('example.com/image.png').read end

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