WebMock

Library for stubbing and setting expectations on HTTP requests in Ruby.

Features

Stubbing HTTP requests at low http client lib level (no need to change tests when you change HTTP library)
Setting and verifying expectations on HTTP requests
Matching requests based on method, URI, headers and body
Smart matching of the same URIs in different representations (also encoded and non encoded forms)
Smart matching of the same headers in different representations.
Support for Test::Unit
Support for RSpec 1.x and RSpec 2.x
Support for MiniTest

Supported HTTP libraries

Net::HTTP and libraries based on Net::HTTP (i.e RightHttpConnection, REST Client, HTTParty)
HTTPClient
Patron
EM-HTTP-Request
Curb (currently only Curb::Easy)
Typhoeus (currently only Typhoeus::Hydra)
Excon

Supported Ruby Interpreters

MRI 1.8.6
MRI 1.8.7
MRI 1.9.1
MRI 1.9.2
MRI 1.9.3
REE 1.8.7
JRuby

##Installation

gem install webmock

or to install the latest development version from github master

git clone http://github.com/bblimke/webmock.git
cd webmock
rake install

Test::Unit

Add the following code to test/test_helper.rb

require 'webmock/test_unit'

RSpec

Add the following code to spec/spec_helper:

require 'webmock/rspec'

MiniTest

Add the following code to test/test_helper:

require 'webmock/minitest'

Cucumber

Add the following code to features/support/env.rb

require 'webmock/cucumber'

Outside a test framework

You can also use WebMock outside a test framework:

require 'webmock'
include WebMock::API

Examples

Stubbing

Stubbed request based on uri only and with the default response

 stub_request(:any, "www.example.com")

 Net::HTTP.get("www.example.com", "/")    # ===> Success

Stubbing requests based on method, uri, body and headers

stub_request(:post, "www.example.com").with(:body => "abc", :headers => { 'Content-Length' => 3 })

uri = URI.parse("http://www.example.com/")
req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.path)
req['Content-Length'] = 3
res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port) {|http|
  http.request(req, "abc")
}    # ===> Success

Matching request body and headers against regular expressions

stub_request(:post, "www.example.com").
  with(:body => /^.*world$/, :headers => {"Content-Type" => /image\/.+/}).to_return(:body => "abc")

uri = URI.parse('http://www.example.com/')
req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.path)
req['Content-Type'] = 'image/png'
res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port) {|http|
  http.request(req, 'hello world')
}    # ===> Success

Matching request body against a hash. Body can be URL-Encoded, JSON or XML.

stub_http_request(:post, "www.example.com").
    with(:body => {:data => {:a => '1', :b => 'five'}})

RestClient.post('www.example.com', "data[a]=1&data[b]=five",
  :content_type => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded')    # ===> Success

RestClient.post('www.example.com', '{"data":{"a":"1","b":"five"}}',
  :content_type => 'application/json')    # ===> Success

RestClient.post('www.example.com', '<data a="1" b="five" />',
  :content_type => 'application/xml' )    # ===> Success

Matching request body against partial hash.

stub_http_request(:post, "www.example.com").
        with(:body => hash_including({:data => {:a => '1', :b => 'five'}}))

RestClient.post('www.example.com', "data[a]=1&data[b]=five&x=1",
:content_type => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded')    # ===> Success

Matching custom request headers

stub_request(:any, "www.example.com").with(:headers=>{ 'Header-Name' => 'Header-Value' })

uri = URI.parse('http://www.example.com/')
req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.path)
req['Header-Name'] = 'Header-Value'
res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port) {|http|
  http.request(req, 'abc')
}    # ===> Success

Matching multiple headers with the same name

stub_http_request(:get, 'www.example.com').with(:headers => {'Accept' => ['image/jpeg', 'image/png'] })

req = Net::HTTP::Get.new("/")
req['Accept'] = ['image/png']
req.add_field('Accept', 'image/jpeg')
Net::HTTP.start("www.example.com") {|http|  http.request(req) } # ===> Success

Matching requests against provided block

stub_request(:post, "www.example.com").with { |request| request.body == "abc" }
RestClient.post('www.example.com', 'abc')    # ===> Success

Request with basic authentication

stub_request(:get, "user:pass@www.example.com")

Net::HTTP.start('www.example.com') {|http|
  req = Net::HTTP::Get.new('/')
  req.basic_auth 'user', 'pass'
  http.request(req)
}  # ===> Success

Matching uris using regular expressions

 stub_request(:any, /.*example.*/)

 Net::HTTP.get('www.example.com', '/') # ===> Success

Matching query params using hash

 stub_http_request(:get, "www.example.com").with(:query => {"a" => ["b", "c"]})

 RestClient.get("http://www.example.com/?a[]=b&a[]=c") # ===> Success

Matching partial query params using hash

stub_http_request(:get, "www.example.com").with(:query => hash_including({"a" => ["b", "c"]}))

RestClient.get("http://www.example.com/?a[]=b&a[]=c&x=1") # ===> Success

Stubbing with custom response

stub_request(:any, "www.example.com").to_return(:body => "abc", :status => 200,  :headers => { 'Content-Length' => 3 } )

Net::HTTP.get("www.example.com", '/')    # ===> "abc"

Response with body specified as IO object

File.open('/tmp/response_body.txt', 'w') { |f| f.puts 'abc' }

stub_request(:any, "www.example.com").to_return(:body => File.new('/tmp/response_body.txt'), :status => 200)

Net::HTTP.get('www.example.com', '/')    # ===> "abc\n"

Response with custom status message

stub_request(:any, "www.example.com").to_return(:status => [500, "Internal Server Error"])

req = Net::HTTP::Get.new("/")
Net::HTTP.start("www.example.com") { |http| http.request(req) }.message # ===> "Internal Server Error"

Replaying raw responses recorded with `curl -is`

`curl -is www.example.com > /tmp/example_curl_-is_output.txt`
raw_response_file = File.new("/tmp/example_curl_-is_output.txt")

from file

stub_request(:get, "www.example.com").to_return(raw_response_file)

or string

stub_request(:get, "www.example.com").to_return(raw_response_file.read)

Responses dynamically evaluated from block

stub_request(:any, 'www.example.net').
  to_return { |request| {:body => request.body} }

RestClient.post('www.example.net', 'abc')    # ===> "abc\n"

Responses dynamically evaluated from lambda

stub_request(:any, 'www.example.net').
  to_return(lambda { |request| {:body => request.body} })

RestClient.post('www.example.net', 'abc')    # ===> "abc\n"

Dynamically evaluated raw responses recorded with `curl -is`

`curl -is www.example.com > /tmp/www.example.com.txt`
stub_request(:get, "www.example.com").to_return(lambda { |request| File.new("/tmp/#{request.uri.host.to_s}.txt" }))

Responses with dynamically evaluated parts

stub_request(:any, 'www.example.net').
  to_return(:body => lambda { |request| request.body })

RestClient.post('www.example.net', 'abc')    # ===> "abc\n"

Rack responses

class MyRackApp
  def self.call(env)
    [200, {}, ["Hello"]]
  end
end

stub_request(:get, "www.example.com").to_rack(MyRackApp)

RestClient.post('www.example.com')    # ===> "Hello"

Raising errors

Exception declared by class

stub_request(:any, 'www.example.net').to_raise(StandardError)

RestClient.post('www.example.net', 'abc')    # ===> StandardError

or by exception instance

stub_request(:any, 'www.example.net').to_raise(StandardError.new("some error"))

or by string

stub_request(:any, 'www.example.net').to_raise("some error")

Raising timeout errors

stub_request(:any, 'www.example.net').to_timeout

RestClient.post('www.example.net', 'abc')    # ===> RestClient::RequestTimeout

Multiple responses for repeated requests

stub_request(:get, "www.example.com").to_return({:body => "abc"}, {:body => "def"})
Net::HTTP.get('www.example.com', '/')    # ===> "abc\n"
Net::HTTP.get('www.example.com', '/')    # ===> "def\n"

#after all responses are used the last response will be returned infinitely

Net::HTTP.get('www.example.com', '/')    # ===> "def\n"

Multiple responses using chained `to_return()`, `to_raise()` or `to_timeout` declarations

stub_request(:get, "www.example.com").
    to_return({:body => "abc"}).then.  #then() is just a syntactic sugar
    to_return({:body => "def"}).then.
    to_raise(MyException)
Net::HTTP.get('www.example.com', '/')    # ===> "abc\n"
Net::HTTP.get('www.example.com', '/')    # ===> "def\n"
Net::HTTP.get('www.example.com', '/')    # ===> MyException raised

Specifying number of times given response should be returned

stub_request(:get, "www.example.com").
    to_return({:body => "abc"}).times(2).then.
    to_return({:body => "def"})

Net::HTTP.get('www.example.com', '/')    # ===> "abc\n"
Net::HTTP.get('www.example.com', '/')    # ===> "abc\n"
Net::HTTP.get('www.example.com', '/')    # ===> "def\n"

Real requests to network can be allowed or disabled

WebMock.allow_net_connect!

stub_request(:any, "www.example.com").to_return(:body => "abc")

Net::HTTP.get('www.example.com', '/')    # ===> "abc"

Net::HTTP.get('www.something.com', '/') # ===> /.+Something.+/

WebMock.disable_net_connect!

Net::HTTP.get('www.something.com', '/')    # ===> Failure

External requests can be disabled while allowing localhost

WebMock.disable_net_connect!(:allow_localhost => true)

Net::HTTP.get('www.something.com', '/')   # ===> Failure

Net::HTTP.get('localhost:9887', '/')      # ===> Allowed. Perhaps to Selenium?

External requests can be disabled while allowing any hostname or port or parts thereof

WebMock.disable_net_connect!(:allow => "www.example.org:8080")

RestClient.get('www.something.com', '/')   # ===> Failure

RestClient.get('www.example.org', '/')     # ===> Failure.

RestClient.get('www.example.org:8080', '/')     # ===> Allowed

WebMock.disable_net_connect!(:allow => /ample.org/)

RestClient.get('www.example.org', '/')   # ===> Allowed

Connecting on Net::HTTP.start

HTTP protocol has 3 steps: connect, request and response (or 4 with close). Most Ruby HTTP client libraries treat connect as a part of request step, with the exception of Net::HTTP which allows opening connection to the server separately to the request, by using Net::HTTP.start.

WebMock API was also designed with connect being part of request step, and it only allows stubbing requests, not connections. When Net::HTTP.start is called, WebMock doesn't know yet whether a request is stubbed or not. WebMock by default delays a connection until the request is invoked, so when there is no request, Net::HTTP.start doesn't do anything. This means that WebMock breaks the Net::HTTP behaviour by default!

To workaround this issue, WebMock offers :net_http_connect_on_start option, which can be passed to WebMock.allow_net_connect! and WebMock#disable_net_connect! methods, i.e.

WebMock.allow_net_connect!(:net_http_connect_on_start => true)

This forces WebMock Net::HTTP adapter to always connect on Net::HTTP.start.

Setting Expectations

Setting expectations in Test::Unit

require 'webmock/test_unit'

stub_request(:any, "www.example.com")

uri = URI.parse('http://www.example.com/')
req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.path)
req['Content-Length'] = 3
res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port) {|http|
  http.request(req, 'abc')
}

assert_requested :post, "http://www.example.com",
  :headers => {'Content-Length' => 3}, :body => "abc", :times => 1    # ===> Success

assert_not_requested :get, "http://www.something.com"    # ===> Success

assert_requested(:post, "http://www.example.com", :times => 1) { |req| req.body == "abc" }

Expecting real (not stubbed) requests

WebMock.allow_net_connect!

Net::HTTP.get('www.example.com', '/')    # ===> Success

assert_requested :get, "http://www.example.com"    # ===> Success

Setting expectations in Test::Unit on the stub

stub_get = stub_request(:get, "www.example.com")
stub_post = stub_request(:post, "www.example.com")

Net::HTTP.get('www.example.com', '/')

assert_requested(stub_get)
assert_not_requested(stub_post)

Setting expectations in RSpec on `WebMock` module

This style is borrowed from fakeweb-matcher

require 'webmock/rspec'

WebMock.should have_requested(:get, "www.example.com").with(:body => "abc", :headers => {'Content-Length' => 3}).twice

WebMock.should_not have_requested(:get, "www.something.com")

WebMock.should have_requested(:post, "www.example.com").with { |req| req.body == "abc" }

WebMock.should have_requested(:get, "www.example.com").with(:query => {"a" => ["b", "c"]})

WebMock.should have_requested(:get, "www.example.com").with(:query => hash_including({"a" => ["b", "c"]}))

WebMock.should have_requested(:get, "www.example.com").
  with(:body => {"a" => ["b", "c"]}, :headers => {'Content-Type' => 'application/json'})

Setting expectations in RSpec with `a_request`

a_request(:post, "www.example.com").with(:body => "abc", :headers => {'Content-Length' => 3}).should have_been_made.once

a_request(:post, "www.something.com").should have_been_made.times(3)

a_request(:any, "www.example.com").should_not have_been_made

a_request(:post, "www.example.com").with { |req| req.body == "abc" }.should have_been_made

a_request(:get, "www.example.com").with(:query => {"a" => ["b", "c"]}).should have_been_made

a_request(:get, "www.example.com").with(:query => hash_including({"a" => ["b", "c"]})).should have_been_made

a_request(:post, "www.example.com").
  with(:body => {"a" => ["b", "c"]}, :headers => {'Content-Type' => 'application/json'}).should have_been_made

Setting expectations in RSpec on the stub

stub = stub_request(:get, "www.example.com")
# ... make requests ...
stub.should have_been_requested

Clearing stubs and request history

If you want to reset all current stubs and history of requests use WebMock.reset!

stub_request(:any, "www.example.com")

Net::HTTP.get('www.example.com', '/')    # ===> Success

WebMock.reset!

Net::HTTP.get('www.example.com', '/')    # ===> Failure

assert_not_requested :get, "www.example.com"    # ===> Success

Disabling and enabling WebMock or only some http client adapters

WebMock.disable!                         #disable WebMock (all adapters)
WebMock.disable!(:except => [:net_http]) #disable WebMock for all libs except Net::HTTP
WebMock.enable!                          #enable WebMock (all adapters)
WebMock.enable!(:except => [:patron])    #enable WebMock for all libs except Patron

Matching requests

An executed request matches stubbed request if it passes following criteria:

When request URI matches stubbed request URI string or Regexp pattern
And request method is the same as stubbed request method or stubbed request method is :any
And request body is the same as stubbed request body or stubbed request body is not specified
And request headers match stubbed request headers, or stubbed request headers match a subset of request headers, or stubbed request headers are not specified
And request matches provided block or block is not provided

Precedence of stubs

Always the last declared stub matching the request will be applied i.e:

stub_request(:get, "www.example.com").to_return(:body => "abc")
stub_request(:get, "www.example.com").to_return(:body => "def")

Net::HTTP.get('www.example.com', '/')   # ====> "def"

Matching URIs

WebMock will match all different representations of the same URI.

I.e all the following representations of the URI are equal:

"www.example.com"
"www.example.com/"
"www.example.com:80"
"www.example.com:80/"
"http://www.example.com"
"http://www.example.com/"
"http://www.example.com:80"
"http://www.example.com:80/"

The following URIs with basic authentication are also equal for WebMock

"a b:pass@www.example.com"
"a b:pass@www.example.com/"
"a b:pass@www.example.com:80"
"a b:pass@www.example.com:80/"
"http://a b:pass@www.example.com"
"http://a b:pass@www.example.com/"
"http://a b:pass@www.example.com:80"
"http://a b:pass@www.example.com:80/"
"a%20b:pass@www.example.com"
"a%20b:pass@www.example.com/"
"a%20b:pass@www.example.com:80"
"a%20b:pass@www.example.com:80/"
"http://a%20b:pass@www.example.com"
"http://a%20b:pass@www.example.com/"
"http://a%20b:pass@www.example.com:80"
"http://a%20b:pass@www.example.com:80/"

or these

"www.example.com/my path/?a=my param&b=c"
"www.example.com/my%20path/?a=my%20param&b=c"
"www.example.com:80/my path/?a=my param&b=c"
"www.example.com:80/my%20path/?a=my%20param&b=c"
"http://www.example.com/my path/?a=my param&b=c"
"http://www.example.com/my%20path/?a=my%20param&b=c"
"http://www.example.com:80/my path/?a=my param&b=c"
"http://www.example.com:80/my%20path/?a=my%20param&b=c"

If you provide Regexp to match URI, WebMock will try to match it against every valid form of the same url.

I.e /.*my param.*/ will match www.example.com/my%20path because it is equivalent of www.example.com/my path

Matching headers

WebMock will match request headers against stubbed request headers in the following situations:

Stubbed request has headers specified and request headers are the same as stubbed headers
i.e stubbed headers: { 'Header1' => 'Value1', 'Header1' => 'Value1' }, requested: { 'Header1' => 'Value1', 'Header1' => 'Value1' }
Stubbed request has headers specified and stubbed request headers are a subset of request headers
i.e stubbed headers: { 'Header1' => 'Value1' }, requested: { 'Header1' => 'Value1', 'Header1' => 'Value1' }
Stubbed request has no headers
i.e stubbed headers: nil, requested: { 'Header1' => 'Value1', 'Header1' => 'Value1' }

WebMock normalises headers and treats all forms of same headers as equal: i.e the following two sets of headers are equal:

{ "Header1" => "value1", :content_length => 123, :X_CuStOm_hEAder => :value }

{ :header1 => "value1", "Content-Length" => 123, "x-cuSTOM-HeAder" => "value" }

Recording real requests and responses and replaying them later

To record your application's real HTTP interactions and replay them later in tests you can use VCR with WebMock.

Request callbacks

####WebMock can invoke callbacks stubbed or real requests:

WebMock.after_request do |request_signature, response|
  puts "Request #{request_signature} was made and #{response} was returned"
end

invoke callbacks for real requests only and except requests made with Patron

WebMock.after_request(:except => [:patron], :real_requests_only => true)  do |request_signature, response|
  puts "Request #{request_signature} was made and #{response} was returned"
end

Bugs and Issues

Please submit them here http://github.com/bblimke/webmock/issues

Suggestions

If you have any suggestions on how to improve WebMock please send an email to the mailing list groups.google.com/group/webmock-users

I'm particularly interested in how the DSL could be improved.

Development

In order to work on Webmock you first need to fork and clone the repo. Please do any work on a dedicated branch and rebase against master before sending a pull request.

Running Tests

We use RVM in order to test WebMock against 1.8.6, REE, 1.8.7, 1.9.2 and jRuby. You can get RVM setup for WebMock development using the following commands (if you don't have these version of Ruby installed use rvm install to install each of them).

rvm use --create 1.8.6@webmock
gem install jeweler bundler
bundle install

rvm use --create ree@webmock
gem install jeweler bundler
bundle install

rvm use --create 1.8.7@webmock
gem install jeweler bundler
bundle install

rvm use --create 1.9.2@webmock
gem install jeweler bundler
bundle install

rvm use --create jruby@webmock
gem install jeweler bundler
bundle install

These commands will create a gemset named WebMock for each of the supported versions of Ruby and bundle install all dependencies.

With the supported versions of Ruby installed RVM will run specs across all version with just one command.

bundle exec rvm 1.8.6@webmock,ree@webmock,1.8.7@webmock,1.9.2@webmock,jruby@webmock rspec spec/**/*_spec.rb

This command is wrapped up in to a rake task and can be invoked like so:

rake spec:rubies

Credits

The initial lines of this project were written during New Bamboo Hack Day Thanks to my fellow Bambinos for all the great suggestions!

People who submitted patches and new features or suggested improvements. Many thanks to these people:

Ben Pickles
Mark Evans
Ivan Vega
Piotr Usewicz
Nick Plante
Nick Quaranto
Diego E. "Flameeyes" Pettenò
Niels Meersschaert
Mack Earnhardt
Arvicco
Sergio Gil
Jeffrey Jones
Tekin Suleyman
Tom Ward
Nadim Bitar
Myron Marston
Sam Phillips
Jose Angel Cortinas
Razic
Steve Tooke
Nathaniel Bibler
Martyn Loughran
Muness Alrubaie
Charles Li
Ryan Bigg
Pete Higgins
Hans de Graaff
Alastair Brunton
Sam Stokes
Eugene Bolshakov
James Conroy-Finn
Salvador Fuentes Jr
Alex Rothenberg
Aidan Feldman
Steve Hull
Jay Adkisson
Zach Dennis
Nikita Fedyashev
Lin Jen-Shin
David Yeu
Andreas Garnæs
Roman Shterenzon
Chris McGrath
Stephen Celis
Eugene Pimenov
Albert Llop
Christopher Pickslay
Tammer Saleh
Nicolas Fouché
Joe Van Dyk
Mark Abramov
Frank Schumacher
Dimitrij Denissenko
Marnen Laibow-Koser
Evgeniy Dolzhenko
Nick Recobra
Jordan Elver
Joe Karayusuf

For a full list of contributors you can visit the contributors page.

Background

Thank you Fakeweb! This library was inspired by FakeWeb. I imported some solutions from that project to WebMock. I also copied some code i.e Net:HTTP adapter. Fakeweb architecture unfortunately didn't allow me to extend it easily with the features I needed. I also preferred some things to work differently i.e request stub precedence.

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