On Jan 14, 2012, at 10:32 AM, David Chelimsky wrote: > On Jan 14, 2012, at 8:40 AM, apneadiving wrote: > >> As I am writing a brand new API, I'd like to test it's response. > <snip/> >> Basically, it would be great in my case to test if ActiveResource gets >> the expected data but it means I have to launch a test server in >> background for the whole suite. > <snip/> >> Is there a convenient to handle this? Currently, I launch the test >> server in console but it would be much better to have this handled >> programmatically. > > I'd recommend you check out https://github.com/brynary/rack-test. It provides > access to attributes of the request and the response object, and obviates the > need for running a server. Take a look at its specs: > https://github.com/brynary/rack-test/blob/master/spec/rack/test_spec.rb.
Of course, you get rack-test for free if you use request specs (which wrap Rails integration tests, which use rack-test). http://rubydoc.info/gems/rspec-rails/file/README.md#Request_Specs http://guides.rubyonrails.org/testing.html#integration-testing
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