Copy resources with frank and cucumber - iphone

Question

I have a iPhone project where i use frank and cucumber for acceptance testing.
My application has a feature to collect files from the documents directory and index them in the applications database.
I want to test this feature with cucumber. But this means i have to copy files to the applications documents directory.
My questions are:
How do i dynamically make step definitions to copy files?
Where do place the resources before they get copied? In what folder structure?
How do i reach these files from my step definitions?
Thanks.

Answer 1

We created a helper function to do something like this for injecting images into the simulator gallery..
def init_simulator_images(num_images)
(1..num_images.to_i).each do |n|
target_file = "IMG_000#{n}.JPG"
begin
File.stat("#{ENV['simulator_media_path']}/#{target_file}")
rescue Errno::ENOENT
app_exec 'FEX_loadPhotoLibraryImage:', "test/#{target_file}"
end
end
end
and then on the native code side, we have a helper class called FEX_Helper to aid in anything where we need to modify the app at runtime (RubyMotion code but v. similar to objective-c except for the syntax):
def FEX_loadPhotoLibraryImage(imageStr)
img = UIImage.imageNamed(imageStr)
UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum(img, nil, nil, nil)
end
Lastly the simulator media path is defined thusly:
def simulator_media_path
"#{self.simulator_version_path}/Media/DCIM/100APPLE"
end
def simulator_path
"/Users/#{self.user}/Library/Application\ Support/iPhone\ Simulator"
end
def simulator_version_path
"#{self.simulator_path}/#{self.simulator_version}"
end
Hope that helps someone trying to inject files into the simulator for testing.
Mark