ActiveResource, FakeWeb & Regex Mojo (authenticated edition) November 23, 2010 at 11:35 am
Have a web service which needs requires authentication, but you’re testing a completely different part of the application? Again, FakeWeb & Regex help you out here. If you’re testing a model extended from ActiveResource by using FakeWeb, the url will look something like this:
1 | http://user:pass@example.com/someService |
To mock the request, use a regular expression like so:
1 | FakeWeb.register_uri :get, %r|http:(.*)example.com/someService|, :body => 'foo' |
Now you don’t have to worry about how you are authenticated. Of course you could use a more advanced regular expression, but we’re not testing that ActiveResource knows how to authenticate with a source, right?
