How to use basic stub_request in spec?

[Vell]

Hello all,

I am attempting to use a basic stub_request to simulate an error 500 when making a web request. Unfortunately I was not able to understand how to get this to work. I was wondering if anyone can tell me what I am missing.

My current code I have for the moment is:

context 'an invalid connection' do
      it 'should return an error message in error array' do
        stub_request(:any, "http://api.openweathermap.org/").to_return(:status => [500, "Internal Server Error"])
      end
    end

The error I am getting is:

Failures:


  1) OpenWeatherMapWrapper#current_weather an invalid connection should return an error message in error array
     Failure/Error: stub_request(:any, "http://api.openweathermap.org/").to_return(:status => [500, "Internal Server Error"])
     NoMethodError:
       undefined method `stub_request' for #<RSpec::ExampleGroups::OpenWeatherMapWrapper::CurrentWeather::AnInvalidConnection:0x007fa92c430418>
     # ./spec/apis/open_weather_map_wrapper_spec.rb:22:in `block (4 levels) in <top (required)>

I tried adding 

require 'webmock/rspec'

But that didn't seem to address the issue.

The end result is that I would be able to stub the request to the root url and then expect to get the error 500 for the test to pass.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

[Bartosz Blimke]

Have you added 'require 'webmock/rspec'' to spec_helper.rb?

Does it work if you call WebMock.stub_request ?

Bartosz

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[Vell]

Thanks for the response Bartosz.

I actually added it in the test itself as an initial test. My initial assumption was that because I had webmock required in my gem file that I really didn't think I needed to add it anywhere else. So I just added it in the specific test that I had planned to use it with and see if it would work then move it to my rails_helper.rb file if it worked. Thats how I got the error.

So I added the require 'webmock/rspec' to the rails helper and ran the test and I didn't get any errors. So I think I am set there.

Now I just need to figure out how to complete the rest of my test :)