I am trying to build some tests where a file is uploaded and than processed by file column. Perhaps I am misunderstanding the new fixture_file_upload that was introduced in 1.1 but I can''t seem to get it to work correctly. I am trying to run a functional test to make sure that a redirect is made to the appropriate page from a create action. I create an issue and the issue can have a picture attached to it, and depending on if the user wants to create another issue or not is redirected to another form or they are redirected to a list of all issues. Here is the basic user flow: Action called: new fill out form action called: create redirected to either action list, or action new if I comment out the following line: ''cover'' => fixture_file_upload(''/files/ 18932_20051218002317_large-1.jpg'', ''image/jpg''), everything works as it should and the test passes however if I leave the line in I get an error for the test. However the error is not consistant, In my action I create two objects based on the single form (one is a child of the first). I have recieved template not found for action create errors which is true as create is not a page, as well as Mysql::Error: Column ''issue_id'' cannot be null:. Any thoughts? Am I going about testing a file upload wrong? the form and actions work perfect in my dev environment where I upload and fill out the form manually but in test it does not. Thanks Andrew