May of these things are magical, and will be angry with you to do anything outside of their designed parameters. Capybara will fight you.
You are testing an API, you need to send it things, and test the responses. Also, you say it's restful. If you'd like to use something declarative, then I'd like to suggest: Rspec for writing your rules. And r (https://github.com/archiloque/rest-client)est-client for making your requests. https://github.com/archiloque/rest-client The requests and responses are very clean and easy to read. Webrat and Capybara are great for testing forms and buttons, but since you're touching an api, then you just need a clean syntax for describing your post, get statements and inspecting their responses. -Graeme On Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Robert Evans wrote: > Cucumber with Capybara will work in JRuby, so you should be able to use that > and test the API. Capybara will need to be setup with selenium or > poltergeist. > > > On Oct 4, 2012, at 10:35 AM, Chris McCann <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > In my day job I work on a large Java-based web app that uses a RESTful JSON > > API to serve data to a JS-based front-end. Our QA folks are struggling a > > bit with how best to do automated testing of the API. > > > > I've done some googling but come up empty-handed. Can anyone recommend a > > solid integration testing framework that uses declarative (think "shoulda") > > language for describing tests that we could use to exercise the API? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Chris > > > > -- > > SD Ruby mailing list > > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > ========= > Robert Evans > Code Wranglers, Inc > > http://www.codewranglers.org (http://www.codewranglers.org/) > http://www.github.com/revans > http://www.linkedin/in/rrevans > > > > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
