Testing ActiveResource models with HttpMock

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Hi all,

I have already spent (too) many hours trying to wire HttpMock in my test suite and I am stuck. I'm setting up my "remote fixtures" using a technique quite similar to what's described here:

but even the simplest of my test requests are not accepted. I always bump into "ActiveResource::InvalidRequestError: No response recorded for ..."

I see two problems:

1. The real API requires HTTP Basic Authentication so all my client requests include an authorization header which I've added to my request. But as there's no documentation at all about how to do this, I might be mistaken. I am adding the expected request header as follow:

     request_headers = {        'Authorization' => 'Basic REPLACEDBUTYOUGETTHEIDEA=='      }

     ActiveResource::HttpMock.respond_to do |mock|        mock.get "/contacts.xml", request_headers, load_remote_fixtures ('contacts.xml')      end

2. I am wondering if this bug Code Intensity: Bug in ActiveResource's HttpMock? has actually ever been fixed, looking at HttpMock's code, I don't see how the ordering of the hash key is guaranteed, unless there's some more ActiveSupport magic involved (but I don't think so).

Any help about this will be greatly appreciated. If I judge by the number of results returned by my various Google searches on that topic, it seems like there are not many people using ActiveResource testing... or only a bunch unlucky few have problems with it. :wink:

Regards,

Xavier

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I just wrote a blog post summarizing what I could find, and how we are going to address the problem of testing (hit a real server with the AR client):

http://pivotallabs.com/users/chad/blog/articles/656-automated-end-to-end-integration-testing-for-activeresource-apis

-- Chad