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Testing REST Web Services with Rails
- jingweno 15y agoTesting REST web services has never been easy. It requires a running web server, multiple threads, network conection and complex transaction management. Ideally, REST web service client test should have the following characteristics: The experience of testing web service API is similar to that of testing a ActiveRecord model Start up and shut down the web server for the purpose of running REST web services Rollback test data after each test Control fixture creation for REST web services In this article, I demonstrate solutions to each of those mentioned with ActiveResource and Distributed Ruby.