In my app I'd like to send a request to google sitemaps indexer after
a new post is created.
This would take place in the post_observer and would look something
like this:
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
class PostObserver < ActiveRecord::Observer
include ActionController::UrlWriter
default_url_options[:host] = "mydomain.com"
def after_create(post)
Net::HTTP.get('www.google.com', '/ping?sitemap=' + URI.escape
(sitemap_url))
end
end
How could I write a test for this?
Firstly, after_create should not call the service directly - it should call a method in a GoogleApi module that calls the service. (See the thread "no sql in the controller guideline".)
Also - how could I disable the actual request while running in test
mode?
Use Mocha to introduce a mock.
Call the real service one time and p the result out. Copy the result into the test code and configure a test to mock either the Net::HTTP or the GoogleApi. The mock will return your recorded result.
Firstly, after_create should not call the service directly - it should call a
method in a GoogleApi module that calls the service. (See the thread "no sql in
the controller guideline".)
Firstly, after_create should not call the service directly - it should call a
method in a GoogleApi module that calls the service. (See the thread "no sql in
the controller guideline".)
Would this apply to model_observers too?
Yes; MVC theory suggests observers are controllers. We all wish observers did not exist, and controllers simply watched everything! Observers are just exposed plumbing...
So instead of sending an email after a user is created (for example)
from the observer, It would be better to have the controller send it
or call a model method to send it?
