Comments on: Problem Testing ActiveResource with Mocks in Rails

By: k liu

k liu — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:44:26 +0000

Taking a cue from knowuh, here’s an improved version that doesn’t require copying code from ARes.

By: knowuh

knowuh — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:36:10 +0000

Uh, I think I spoke to soon.

FWIW, your solution ended up not working for me. I instead had to spend some time modifying my test_helper by adding two methods to turn off and on the mock behavior in setup calls.

Here is a link to the code snipit i ended up adding:

http://pastie.org/405434

By: knowuh

knowuh — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:28:58 +0000

Yes sir, Thank you!

I only wasted three hours instead of your six. Still you saved me. Thanks!

By: ROhan Kini

ROhan Kini — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:29:00 +0000

Is this solution not dependent on how the tests are loaded up ?

Putting the require in the setup block does not really solve the issue, unless you are rolling back HttpMock internals in the teardown. If another test which does not work well with HttpMock loaded runs after BControllerTest things should fail once again.

By: karmi

karmi — Thu, 29 May 2008 10:23:07 +0000

Another thanks!!! here , only after reading your reasoning it occured me that I have require-ed ‘active_resource/http_mock’ in test helper, effectively destroying connection for my non-mock controller test. (Known case of “being too smart”. Or maybe too “DRY”

Thanks!

Karel

By: Cathal

Cathal — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 15:37:36 +0000

Thanks for posting about this John. I’m sure I would have hit the same problem sooner or later.