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Ruby Cucumber PDF reader

I'm running tests to render and check a PDF. I've got it working but the PDF's are date stamped in the filename. I'm looking for a way to always have today's generated file to be opened. I've tried the Date.today approach but had no joy as PDF reader doesn't see it as a correct filename. Here is my code so you can see what I'm trying to do:

today = Date.today
Given /^I open the saved PDF and confirm the VRM is "(.*?)"$/ do |vrm|
filename = 'C:\Users\user\Downloads\vehicle_summary_VRM_#{today}.pdf'
    PDF::Reader.open(filename) do |reader|  
        reader.pages.each do |page|
            expect(reader.page(1)).to have_content vrm
                puts page.text
    end
  end
end

I get the following exception: input must be an IO-like object or a filename (ArgumentError)

Any ideas?

Thanks

Solution

  • Change single quotes in:

    filename = 'C:\Users\user\Downloads\vehicle_summary_VRM_#{today}.pdf'

    to double quotes:

    filename = "C:\Users\user\Downloads\vehicle_summary_VRM_#{today}.pdf"