Chapter 12Testing External Services
Weâve decided the one thing our project-management tool really needs is a bit of graphical spark. Specifically, weâve been asked to have usersâ Twitter avatars show up on the site attached to tasks they have completed. (Handily, Twitter has a Ruby gem thatâs not to hard to set up.) Since this is Rails 4 Test Prescriptions and not Rails 4 Connecting to Twitter Prescriptions, weâd like to be able to test our interaction with the Twitter API.
Unfortunately, interacting with a third-party web service introduces a lot of complexity to our testing. Connecting to a web service is slowâeven slower than the database connections weâve already tried to avoid. Plus, connection to a web service requires an ...
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