guide for testing

[phoet]

i was looking around the feedzirra repo for how to test this stuff within my app, but i did not find a real guide for this. my first approach was to use webmock, but as i read, curb is not fully supported, so this seems to not be an option.

i would love to see a section in the readme that points out how to mock/stub/fake whatever in feedzirra in order to have some kind of unit-test, that does not call out to the interwebs.

[JakobR]

I had the same problem (tried to use webmock as well).

I'm using a local HTTP server that serves all the feeds I want to run tests on. It might not be a very good solution, but so far it has worked well enough for me.

[filiptepper]

Back when I started using Feedzirra I've testing it with file:// protocol. See my old blog post for a sample solution (http://filiptepper.github.io/2009/11/16/testing-feedzirra/), perhaps this still works.

[phoet]

@filiptepper ah, nice trick!

[filiptepper]

@jonallured Feel free to close this issue unless there's something else we should mention in the README?