Comments on: simple web services with rails

By: jgpawletko

jgpawletko — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 01:56:46 +0000

Many thanks from a Rails noob.
Your write-up helped me solve a problem I was having with POSTing XML to a
Rails 3.0 app I’m developing.

By: Tom Rossi

Tom Rossi — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:18:12 +0000

This method of testing with cron is definitely valuable! I was just wondering how I could test (preferably without a plugin). It would seem like with all the emphasis on REST and on testing, that the framework would make it a little easier to test something like your app responding to an xml post.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:07:31 +0000

I absolutely agree that this kind of thing belongs in your test suite. Thanks for pointing that out. I’m fond of cucumber for testing this kind of thing (since it also provides docs for the APIs that you could give to another developer). However, I did this because my tests were failing when they used to succeed and I didn’t understand why… it turned out that there was some syntax change in a version upgrade that led to the http header not being set correctly. In any case, I found that getting back to basics helped me isolate the issue.

By: Tom Rossi

Tom Rossi — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:51:51 +0000

Is there a way to actually do this in your functional test rather than using curl? In other words, rather than calling:

post :create, params

Can we call something like:

post :create, :xml => (object.to_xml)?

That would be nice just so we can jump into a functional test and look at the response.body for debugging.

Thanks,
Tom