On Jun 18, 2010, at 12:02 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote: > One thing that just came to my mind is to fake the requests on the app server > instance. One simple way to do that would be to just put the FakeWeb call in > a cucumber / culerity environment file. However, this is far from being > elegant and is not scalable at all, as the call would be contextless to the > spec that needs it.
How about putting it in a step/step definition before the call gets made? > > Any other ideas? > > Marcelo. > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa > <celose...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I have an acceptance test that aims to bdd a Google Apps OpenID > authentication feature. This login screen also uses some JS (in order to > switch between the regular / Google OpenID forms). Now, I know this is not > something that would prevent me from using the :rack driver for Capybara, but > it made me think of the following problem: What to do when you have a > JS/Ajax-oriented page that makes web service calls and you need to write an > integration/acceptance test for it? > > The fact that a scenario uses Javascript (Culerity/Selenium/Whatever) means > it will need to spawn a different process (Not sure about EnvJS, but I guess > it also needs a rails server running? ) for the rails app server. This > essentially prevents any mocking/stubbing/faking of requests. I wouldn't want > a bunch of acceptance tests that actually make requests to web services, > certainly a testing no-no. > > What do you guys think could be done in these cases? I remember seeing > something a long time ago (a lib) that actually tried to solve the problem of > mocking while having the two processes open. Or maybe it's too much troube to > write integration tests for these kind of features? > > FYI, I'm using rSpec, Steak and Capybara+Culerity. > > Marcelo. > > > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
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