barinek@pivotal boulder - Testing Ruby Services without Mocks

handy way to mock a remote api for testing:

There seems to be a tendency to stub or mock classes when writing integration tests for basic http services. I'm actually not a big fan of this approach. By definition, the integration test should truly integrate with another subsystem. In the case of a http service, the tests should probably integrate over http, agreed? Here's one approach for testing services without stub or mocks... Imagine a reservation booking system that integrates with a 3rd party API. By default, you might create a Rails model that extends ActiveModel, ActiveRecord or even ActiveResource. Although you stop, after reading this blog post , and create an unbuilt Gem that reaches out to the 3rd party service. Your service might look something like this... require "rack" require "nokogiri" class ReservationService def create_reservation(reservation) url = URI.parse('http://localhost:9393/') http = Net::...

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