All Thumbs and No Fingers » rest http://redjamjar.net A bucket for all things Mon, 10 May 2010 21:30:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Rails – speaking to rest as a mock webservice http://redjamjar.net/2009/02/27/rails-speaking-to-rest-as-a-mock-webservice/ http://redjamjar.net/2009/02/27/rails-speaking-to-rest-as-a-mock-webservice/#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:03:44 +0000 Mojo http://2thumbs.wordpress.com/?p=52
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    What I mean is being able to create a service mock up a test script and talk to the server using XML.

    Here is an example of creating a new Person:

    require 'net/http'

    s = <<-XML

    Sarah
    Jhummun

    XML

    Net::HTTP.start('localhost', 3000) do |http|
    response = http.post('/people.xml', "#{s}", 'Content-Type' => 'text/xml')

    #Do something with the response.

    puts "Code: #{response.code}"
    puts "Message: #{response.message}"
    puts "Body:\n #{response.body}"
    end

    and here is an example of retrieving a list of people:

    require 'net/http'

    Net::HTTP.start('localhost', 3000) do |http|
    response = http.get('/people/', 'Accept' => 'text/xml')

    #Do something with the response.

    puts "Code: #{response.code}"
    puts "Message: #{response.message}"
    puts "Body:\n #{response.body}"
    end

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