starting the fake server prior to tests

tests/Gemfile

@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ gem 'sqlite3-ruby', :require => 'sqlite3'
 gem 'restfulie', '1.0.0.beta.1'
 
 group :test, :development do
+	gem "sinatra"
+	gem "rack-conneg"
   gem "rspec-rails", ">= 2.0.0.beta.19"
 end
 

tests/Gemfile.lock

@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ GEM
     nokogiri (1.4.3.1)
     polyglot (0.3.1)
     rack (1.2.1)
+    rack-conneg (0.1.4)
+      rack (>= 1.0)
     rack-mount (0.6.9)
       rack (>= 1.0.0)
     rack-test (0.5.4)
@@ -80,6 +82,8 @@ GEM
     rspec-rails (2.0.0.beta.19)
       rspec (= 2.0.0.beta.19)
       webrat (>= 0.7.2.beta.1)
+    sinatra (1.0)
+      rack (>= 1.0)
     sqlite3-ruby (1.3.1)
     thor (0.14.0)
     treetop (1.4.8)
@@ -94,7 +98,9 @@ PLATFORMS
   ruby
 
 DEPENDENCIES
+  rack-conneg
   rails (= 3.0.0.rc)
   restfulie (= 1.0.0.beta.1)
   rspec-rails (>= 2.0.0.beta.19)
+  sinatra
   sqlite3-ruby

tests/Rakefile

@@ -5,3 +5,28 @@ require File.expand_path('../config/application', __FILE__)
 require 'rake'
 
 Tests::Application.load_tasks
+
+module FakeServer
+  def self.wait_server(port=3000)
+    (1..15).each do 
+      begin
+        Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse("http://localhost:#{port}/"))
+        return
+      rescue
+        sleep 1
+      end
+    end
+    raise "Waited for the server but it did not finish"
+  end
+
+  def self.start_server_and_invoke_test(task_name)
+    IO.popen("ruby ./spec/requests/fake_server.rb") do |pipe|
+      wait_server(4567)
+      Rake::Task[task_name].invoke
+      Process.kill 'INT', pipe.pid
+    end
+  end
+
+end
+
+FakeServer.start_server_and_invoke_test('nothing')

spec/units/client/fake_server.rb → tests/spec/requests/fake_server.rb

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 require 'rack/conneg'
 require 'active_support'
 
-require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),'..','lib','data_helper')
+require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),'..','support','data_helper')
 
 use(Rack::Conneg) do |conneg|
   conneg.set :accept_all_extensions, false