file_fixture

Installing

gem install technicalpickles-file_fixture -s http://gems.github.com

Usage

file_fixture provide provides a convenience method for loading data from files. To use, you just add the snippet to your test_helper.rb:

require 'file_fixture/test_unit'
FileFixture::FIXTURE_DIR = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "file_fixtures")

Place files into the file_fixtures directory, and then you can use file_fixture 'foo' to read and return file_fixtures/foo.

If you were building wrappers around web APIs, you should use static data instead of hitting the API directly. We can use file_fixture to implement this helper method:

def stubbing_http_response_with_fixture(file)
  response = stub(:body => file_fixture(file), :value => nil)
  Net::HTTP.any_instance.stubs(:request).returns(response)

  yield
end

You could then use this in tests like:

stubbing_http_response_with_fixture('get_tags.xml') do
  assert_equal 6, @user.tags.size # @user.tags does a HTTP request
end

License

See LICENSE