We often do some HTTP requests to fetch the data we want to check for certain criteria. Testing this in the real world can be slow and inconvenient, when we aren't able to connect to the endpoint from our notebook.
Fixture JSON file:
{
"categories":[],
"created_at":"2020-01-05 13:42:21.795084",
"icon_url":"https://assets.chucknorris.host/img/avatar/chuck-norris.png",
"id":"02e1usSQT_yO1AahT6meRg",
"updated_at":"2020-01-05 13:42:21.795084",
"url":"https://api.chucknorris.io/jokes/02e1usSQT_yO1AahT6meRg",
"value":"Paul McCartney eats a vegan diet all the time -- except when he eats in the presence of Chuck Norris."
}
# spec/chuck_norris_spec.rb
require 'webmock/rspec'
require 'net/https'
describe "ChuckNorrisJoke" do
before do
stub_request(:any, 'https://api.chucknorris.io/jokes/random' )
.to_return(body: File.open('spec/fixtures/chuck-norris.json'))
end
it 'is funny' do
uri = URI('https://api.chucknorris.io/jokes/random')
res = Net::HTTP.get_response(uri)
expect(res.body).to include('Paul')
end
end
rspec spec/chuck_norris_spec.rb
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