Ruby stubbing with faraday, can't get it to work - ruby

Question

Sorry for the title, I'm too frustrated to come up with anything better right now.
I have a class, Judge, which has a method #stats. This stats method is supposed to send a GET request to an api and get some data as response. I'm trying to test this and stub the stats method so that I don't perform an actual request. This is what my test looks like:
describe Judge do
describe '.stats' do
context 'when success' do
subject { Judge.stats }
it 'returns stats' do
allow(Faraday).to receive(:get).and_return('some data')
expect(subject.status).to eq 200
expect(subject).to be_success
end
end
end
end
This is the class I'm testing:
class Judge
def self.stats
Faraday.get "some-domain-dot-com/stats"
end
end
This currently gives me the error: Faraday does not implement: get
So How do you stub this with faraday? I have seen methods like:
stubs = Faraday::Adapter::Test::Stubs.new do |stub|
stub.get('http://stats-api.com') { [200, {}, 'Lorem ipsum'] }
end
But I can't seem to apply it the right way. What am I missing here?

Answer 1

Note that Faraday.new returns an instance of Faraday::Connection, not Faraday. So you can try using
allow_any_instance_of(Faraday::Connection).to receive(:get).and_return("some data")
Note that I don't know if returning "some data" as shown in your question is correct, because Faraday::Connection.get should return a response object, which would include the body and status code instead of a string. You might try something like this:
allow_any_instance_of(Faraday::Connection).to receive(:get).and_return(
double("response", status: 200, body: "some data")
)
Here's a rails console that shows the class you get back from Faraday.new
$ rails c
Loading development environment (Rails 4.1.5)
2.1.2 :001 > fara = Faraday.new
=> #<Faraday::Connection:0x0000010abcdd28 #parallel_manager=nil, #headers={"User-Agent"=>"Faraday v0.9.1"}, #params={}, #options=#<Faraday::RequestOptions (empty)>, #ssl=#<Faraday::SSLOptions (empty)>, #default_parallel_manager=nil, #builder=#<Faraday::RackBuilder:0x0000010abcd990 #handlers=[Faraday::Request::UrlEncoded, Faraday::Adapter::NetHttp]>, #url_prefix=#<URI::HTTP:0x0000010abcd378 URL:http:/>, #proxy=nil>
2.1.2 :002 > fara.class
=> Faraday::Connection

Answer 2

Coming to this late, but incase anyone else is too, this is what worked for me - a combination of the approaches above:
let(:json_data) { File.read Rails.root.join("..", "fixtures", "ror", "501100000267.json") }
before do
allow_any_instance_of(Faraday::Connection).to receive(:get).and_return(
double(Faraday::Response, status: 200, body: json_data, success?: true)
)
end

Answer 3

Faraday the class has no get method, only the instance does. Since you are using this in a class method what you can do is something like this:
class Judge
def self.stats
connection.get "some-domain-dot-com/stats"
end
def self.connection=(val)
#connection = val
end
def self.connection
#connection ||= Faraday.new(some stuff to build up connection)
end
end
Then in your test you can just set up a double:
let(:connection) { double :connection, get: nil }
before do
allow(connection).to receive(:get).with("some-domain-dot-com/stats").and_return('some data')
Judge.connection = connection
end

Answer 4

I ran into the same problem with Faraday::Adapter::Test::Stubs erroring with Faraday does not implement: get. It seems you need to set stubs to a Faraday adapter, like so:
stubs = Faraday::Adapter::Test::Stubs.new do |stub|
stub.get("some-domain-dot-com/stats") { |env| [200, {}, 'egg'] }
end
test = Faraday.new do |builder|
builder.adapter :test, stubs
end
allow(Faraday).to receive(:new).and_return(test)
expect(Judge.stats.body).to eq "egg"
expect(Judge.stats.status).to eq 200

Answer 5

A better way to do this, rather than using allow_any_instance_of, is to set the default connection for Faraday, so that Faraday.get will use the connection you setup in your tests.
For example:
let(:stubs) { Faraday::Adapter::Test::Stubs.new }
let(:conn) { Faraday.new { |b| b.adapter(:test, stubs) } }
before do
stubs.get('/maps/api/place/details/json') do |_env|
[
200,
{ 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
{ 'result' => { 'photos' => [] } }.to_json
]
end
Faraday.default_connection = conn
end
after do
Faraday.default_connection = nil
end