How to stub request/response in Ruby

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Using RSpec's mock/stub, how do I write a unit test for the find_by_id method?

I want to use RSpec, not WebMock or VCR. How do I create a stub for the request/response?

class RapidApiClient
  HOST_URL = 'https://brianiswu-open-brewery-db-v1.p.rapidapi.com/breweries'
  API_KEY  = 'private_api_key'

   def request_api(url)
    Excon.get(
      url,
      headers: {
        'X-RapidAPI-Host' => HOST_URL,
        'X-RapidAPI-Key' => 'API_KEY'
      }
    )
  end

 def find_by_id(id)
    response = request_api("#{HOST_URL}/#{id}")
    return nil if response.status != 200
    JSON.parse(response.body)
 end  
end

The response is:

[
{"id":4 , "name":"Ban Brewing Company" , "brewery_type":"micro", "city":"Tulsa" , "state":"OK"}
{"id":44,"name":"Tab Brewing" "brewery_type":"micro", "city":"Birmingham", "state":"MO"}
]
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1 Answers

You can stub the request_api method itself so that you don't have to make the HTTP request using something like this:

expect_any_instance_of(RapidApiClient)
    .to receive(:request_api)
    .and_return([
                  {"id":4 , "name":"Ban Brewing Company" , "brewery_type":"micro", "city":"Tulsa" , "state":"OK"}
                  {"id":44,"name":"Tab Brewing" "brewery_type":"micro", "city":"Birmingham", "state":"MO"}
                ])

if you want to stub the actaul request/response.

You can sub the get method of Excon library like this:

expect(Excon)
.to receive(:get)
.and_return(Excon::Response.new(
     :status => 200,
     :body => '[{"id":4 , "name":"Ban Brewing Company","brewery_type":"micro", "city":"Tulsa" , "state":"OK"},{"id":44,"name":"Tab Brewing" "brewery_type":"micro", "city":"Birmingham", "state":"MO"}]'
    ))
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