FakeWeb is a helper for faking web requests. This makes testing easier, because you can decouple your test environment from live services without modifying code.

FakeWeb allows for a range of request behaviour, from simple stubbing of HTTP responses to re-playing complete recorded responses.

In addition to the conceptual advantage of having idempotent request behaviour, FakeWeb makes tests run faster than if they were made to remote (or even local) web servers.

FakeWeb also makes it possible to run tests without a network connection or in situations where the server is behind a firewall or has host based access controls.

FakeWeb is tested with Net::HTTP and OpenURI. FakeWeb should work with any web client library that uses Net::HTTP for its underlying requests (e.g., Ruby/Amazon, soap4r, Flickr.rb, etc.)

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· add lib/fakeweb.rb so you can require "fakeweb" as well [Chris Kampmeier]
· fix compatibility with Ruby 1.9.1 [Chris Kampmeier]
· fix that newlines in file-based responses could be doubled in the response object's body [Mark Menard, Chris Kampmeier]
· fix unnecessary munging of the transfer-encoding header, which improves compatibility with mechanize [Mark Menard]
· fix a test and the RCov dependency to be compatible with JRuby [Mark Menard]
· remove an unnecessary redefinition of OpenURI::HTTPError [Josh Nichols]
· rearrange implementation code into separate files, one per class [Josh Nichols]
· fix a bug where FakeWeb.response_for would raise if the request wasn't registered [Chris Kampmeier]
· add HTTP method support, so FakeWeb takes both the URI and method into account for registration, requests, and responses. Backwards-compatible with the old method signatures, which didn't have a method param. [Chris Kampmeier]
· start work on Ruby 1.9 compatibility [Chris Kampmeier]
· add FakeWeb.allow_net_conn...