Hi -- I have an ActiveResource class in my rails app that I want to test in
Cucumber.
The best way I can think of to do this is just to swap in the JSON that the
web service returns with my own controlled JSON data.
Can this be done, that anyone knows of?
&, if not, is there a better way to be trying to do this?
Cheers,
   Doug.

Sure -- the class looks like this:

class PreTimesheet < ActiveResource::Base
  self.site = 'http://localhost:3000/remote_admin'
  self.user = 'user'
  self.password = 'password'
  self.format = :json
end

And one of my efforts to stub the return values looks like this:

class PreTimesheet < ActiveResource::Base
  self.format = :json
  self.site = "file://public/pre_timesheets"
end

(Where there is a set of RESTful files describing the resource under
public/pre_timesheets, eg: pre_timesheets/pre_timesheets.json,
pre_timesheets/pre_timesheets/1.json, etc.)
I didn't expect my effort outlined above to work, but that's the sort of
thing I've been reduced to trying!
Cheers,
   Doug.

2009/11/3 Alex Barlow <alexbarlo...@me.com>

Hmm, not quite sure how you would go about this either to be perfectly  
honest.

Personally its the way i would go about remote admin anyway, i assume  
that is what your trying to achieve?

On 3 Nov 2009, at 14:40, doug livesey wrote:

Caius Durling suggested the fakeweb gem on the cukes mailing list, and that
seems to be the answer!
Cheers,
   Doug.