How to mock aws-sdk gem? - ruby

I have some code that uploads a file to Amazon S3, using the aws-sdk gem. Apparently it does an HTTP put to upload the file.
Is there a good way to mock this functionality of the aws-sdk gem?
I tried using Webmock, but the aws-sdk gem seems to do a get latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/ first. It seems that using Webmock may not be the best way to mock this functionality.
Working in RSpec.

If you're using version 2 of the aws-sdk gem try adding:
Aws.config.update(stub_responses: true)
to your RSpec.configure block (usually found in your rails_helper.rb file)
While the above works, it will return empty responses if you don't further specify response content - not necessarily valid, but stubbed.
You can generate and return stubbed response data from a named operation:
s3 = Aws::S3::Client.new
s3.stub_data(:list_buckets)
#=> #<struct Aws::S3::Types::ListBucketsOutput buckets=[], owner=#<struct Aws::S3::Types::Owner display_name="DisplayName", id="ID">>
In addition to generating default stubs, you can provide data to apply to the response stub.
s3.stub_data(:list_buckets, buckets:[{name:'aws-sdk'}])
#=> #<struct Aws::S3::Types::ListBucketsOutput buckets=[#<struct Aws::S3::Types::Bucket name="aws-sdk", creation_date=nil>], owner=#<struct Aws::S3::Types::Owner display_name="DisplayName", id="ID">>
For more details refer to: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdkforruby/api/Aws/ClientStubs.html

There are a lot of ways to mock requests in the AWS SDK for Ruby. Trevor Rowe recently posted an article on using the SDK's native support for object stubbing, which does not require any external dependencies like Webmock. You can also use tools like VCR (link will send you to another blog post) to build cacheable integration tests; this way you can test against the live service when you want accuracy and avoid hitting network when you want speed.
Regarding the get request on latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/, this happens because the SDK is trying to look up credentials, and, if none are provided, it will check if you are running on an EC2 instance as a last resort, causing the SDK to make an extra HTTP request. You can avoid this check by simply providing bogus static credentials, though if you are using something like VCR, you will want to provide valid credentials for the first run. You can read about how to provide static credentials in another blog post that Trevor wrote on credential management (this should also be in the developer guide and SDK documentation).

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Rails: Stub client-side ajax call in feature spec

I'm writing an rspec feature spec to test a file upload page that sends files directly from the client to S3 using the s3_direct_upload gem. Instead of hitting S3, I'd like to stub out that link and return the correct response so I can test the behavior after a failed/successful ajax request.
I think my issue lies in the fact that I can't use WebMock to stub requests, since the request isn't fired from the server (it's happening on the client).
Changing the test type/framework
I could add a new testing dependency like Jasmine or Sinon and test the js/page directly, but that still leaves me with feature specs that are trying to hit S3.
Changing the url
All of the bucket/path information for the link to S3 is bundled with the gem, so I would have to patch it in the test env, which I'd like to avoid.
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How I can run a feature spec that stubs out a client-side ajax request?

What methods exist to auto-generate ruby client stubs from WSDL files?

I'm using Ruby and the Savon gem to interact with SOAP/WS and would like to auto-generate the client request methods from the WSDL in Ruby.
Before I do this, I'd like to know if there's any other Ruby/SOAP library that does this?
Edit: Please note, I already know this isn't available in Savon out the box, in fact my intention is to add in the feature, I'm in the process checking if this exists somewhere else written in Ruby.
Since it's only few days since you asked this question, and I've run into same problem I've decided to create small script to do that.
Download - save as objects.rb for example and run with _bunde exec objects.rb path_to.wsdl_
https://gist.github.com/4622792
Let me know if it works ^^
Take a look at Savon's spec, it has pretty rich testing environment
I think ads_common by Google is relevant to you.
google-api-ads-ruby/ads_common at master ยท googleads/google-api-ads-ruby
rake generate can create the client libraries automatically from WSDL.
It is specialized for Google Ads, but this notion would be helpful to create a versatile client library automatically from WSDL in Ruby.

vcr with capybara-webkit

I'm using capybara-webkit to test integration with a third party website (I need javascript).
I want to use vcr to record requests made during the integration test but capybara-webkit doesn't go over net http so vcr is unable to record them. How would I go about writing an adaptor for vcr that would allow me to record the reqeusts?
Unfortunately, VCR is very much incompatible with capybara-webkit. The fact is that capybara webkit is using webkit, which is in c. Webmock and Fakeweb, which are the basis for VCR, can only be used for Ruby web requests. Making the two work together would likely be a monumental task.
I've solved this problem two ways:
The first (hacky, but valid) is to add a new javascript file to the application that is only included in the test environment. This file stubs out the JS classes which make external web requests. Aside from the pure hackatude of this approach, it requires that every time a new request is added or changed you must change the stubs as well.
The second approach is to route all external requests through my own server, effectively proxying all external requests through my server. This has the huge disadvantage that you have to have an action for everything you want to consume (you could genericize it, with some work). It also suffers from the fact that it could as much as double the time for the request to complete. However, since the requests are now being made by Ruby you can use VCR in all it's glory.
In my situations, approach #2 has been much more to my advantage thanks to the fact that I need ruby to manipulate the data so that I can keep my javascript source-agnostic. I was, however, using approach #1 for quite a while successfully.
I've written a small ruby library (puffing-billy) for rspec+capybara that does exactly this -- it injects a proxy in between your browser and the outside world and allows you to fake responses to specific requests.
Example:
describe 'fetching badges from stackoverflow API' do
it 'should show a nice message when you have no badges' do
# stub some JSONP
proxy.stub('http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users/1/badges',
:jsonp => { :badges => [] })
visit '/my_badges'
page.should have_content("You don't have any badges :(")
end
end

How do I test a Curl based FaceBook API implementation?

I wrote my own FaceBook library that uses actual Curl requests, not libcurl.
Is there a way to test it? I'm asking this because most solutions involve using something like fakeweb which as far as I can tell will not work here.
The existing code can be found on my github page.
One approach would be to use a different host/port in test mode (eg localhost:12345)
Then in your test run a sinatra or webrick servlet on that port that you configure to respond to the requests your code should be making
You could mock Request.dispatcher with an expected behavior, pretty much like Fakeweb would do.
There are a few examples on this file, specially https://github.com/chrisk/fakeweb/blob/master/lib/fake_web/ext/net_http.rb#L44.
When running your tests/specs, monkey-patch the run method of your Request class to hook into the Marston VCR library. See the existing library_hooks subdir for examples and ideas on how to do this -- the fakeweb implementation is a good place to start.
VCR works well with live services like Facebook's because it captures interactions "as is", and VCRs can be easily re-recorded when the services change.
I'm running into problems with your library, however. You need to require the cgi and json libraries; it also looks like it requires a Rails environment (it's failing to find with_indifferent_access on Hash).

Ruby: Get currently logged in user on windows

In C# I can get the current user of a web app using the HttpContext, however, I can't figure out how to do this in Ruby. Is there any way of doing this?
FOR THOSE OF YOU SAYING IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, HERES PROOF:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/How_to_NT_User_Name.aspx
Well, to get the current username, there's this:
puts ENV['USERNAME']
Or go to the Win32API.
require 'dl/win32'
def get_user_name
api = Win32API.new(
'advapi32.dll',
'GetUserName',
'PP',
'i'
)
buf = "\0" * 512
len = [512].pack('L')
api.call(buf,len)
buf[0..(len.unpack('L')[0])]
end
puts get_user_name
Edit: And I'm an idiot. This isn't what you asked for at all. Oh well, it took me time to dig this out of my code, so it might as well stay here for anyone else wondering :P
Edit again: OK, it turns out I'm not an idiot after all. This is what you want. When I went back and re-read your question, the HttpContext threw me off, and I thought it was the current username from HTTP auth or something.
To get the username of the current user on client machine you can use this
ENV['USERNAME']
If you're using Rails try: request.env['HTTP_REMOTE_USER']
I think what you mean is how you can retrieve the username that the user used to login to the web application. That will differ depending on what authentication mechanism you're using. Some Apache authentication modules, for example, will pass REMOTE_USER (e.g. the Kerberos module), the CAS Single-Sign-On module passes CAS-USER, etc. Standard digest authentication and such uses the Authentication header. You should be able to access these using request.env[HEADER] as someone else pointed out above. Check out the documentation on how your authentication layer is passing on the user in the HTTP request.
Is your c# code running as a .NET plugin/client-side code or is it ENTIRELY server side? Your ruby code would be entirely server side. According to the MS docs, only stuff running in the CLR sandbox can really get to that information:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163700.aspx (under Defining the sandbox).
One thing interesting to note is that sites registered under LocalIntranet have access to that information. I'm not sure off hand how this maps to security zones in IE though.
The thing to understand is that LOGON_USER is NOT visible to the browser sandbox anymore than the browser can see the contents of a filesystem path on your system. The fact that your c# code sees it almost certainly indicitive of some clientside component passing it upstream.
You have the option of implementing mod_ntlm under apache and pushing the headers downstream. I don't have the points to post a second link but google 'rails ntlm sso' and see the rayapps.com link.
but if your app isn't Rails based, you'll have to port that to your server code. You can also checkout rack-ntlm if your app is rack compliant.
[RUBY ON RAILS ONLY]
This is what worked for me but there are some limitations:
won't work in Chrome: undefined method 'encode' for nil:NilClass
won't validate user credentials
If you don't care about these issues, go ahead:
In your rails application, add Rekado's gem to your Gemfile: gem 'ntlm-sso', '=0.0.1'
Create an initialiser config/initializers/ntlm-sso.rb with:
require 'rack'
require 'rack/auth/ntlm-sso'
class NTLMAuthentication
def initialize(app)
#app = app
end
def call(env)
auth = Rack::Auth::NTLMSSO.new(#app)
return auth.call(env)
end
end
On your application.rb file, add the line: config.middleware.use "NTLMAuthentication"
Call request.env["REMOTE_USER"] on your view or controller to get current username.
PS: Let me know if you find anyway to make it work on Chrome or to validate user credentials.

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