Mongrel users - Nov 2006 - Testing custom mongrel handlers?

Hey Folks-

	I''m trying to setup a new test/spec harness for testing Merb. I was  
wondering if there is a way to mock the Mongrel request, response  
objects easily to test my handler without actually running a server?  
I can easily do the env hash but I''m not entirely sure what needs to  
go in the request StringIO object that gets passed into my mongrel  
handler''s #process method. Is there a good way to do this? Or should  
I just fire up a server and use net/http to test it?

Thanks-

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On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 13:29:00 -0800
Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Folks-
> 
> 	I''m trying to setup a new test/spec harness for testing Merb. I
was
> wondering if there is a way to mock the Mongrel request, response  
> objects easily to test my handler without actually running a server?  
> I can easily do the env hash but I''m not entirely sure what needs
to
> go in the request StringIO object that gets passed into my mongrel  
> handler''s #process method. Is there a good way to do this? Or
should
> I just fire up a server and use net/http to test it?
It''s pretty easy until you get to the StringIO.  Basically, you put
whatever encoded data would go into the body of the request.  So, multipart
mime, form posts, etc.

You *might* be able to steal some of that from say RFuzz and then do an internal
mock kind of thing.

Normally though, I just use rfuzz to write an external testing setup and skip
the mock stuff completely.

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