Adds simple access to sample files called file fixtures. File fixtures are normal files stored in ActiveSupport::TestCase.file_fixture_path.

File fixtures are represented as Pathname objects. This makes it easy to extract specific information:

file_fixture("example.txt").read # get the file's content
file_fixture("example.mp3").size # get the file size

Methods

Instance Public methods

file_fixture(fixture_name)

Returns a Pathname to the fixture file named fixture_name.

Raises ArgumentError if fixture_name can’t be found.

📝 Source code
# File activesupport/lib/active_support/testing/file_fixtures.rb, line 26
      def file_fixture(fixture_name)
        path = Pathname.new(File.join(file_fixture_path, fixture_name))

        if path.exist?
          path
        else
          msg = "the directory '%s' does not contain a file named '%s'"
          raise ArgumentError, msg % [file_fixture_path, fixture_name]
        end
      end
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