Having issue with webmock in stubbing request - ruby-on-rails

Question

I am writin specs for my gem and I am using webmock to mock http requests. But i keep on getting this weird error.
Here is my specs code
require 'spec_helper'
describe 'Generator::Exotel' do
describe '#success' do
let(:resps) { {"Status"=>"200", "Message"=>"Success"} }
before do
stub_request(:post, "https://test_sid:test_token#twilix.exotel.in/v1/Accounts/#{Generator::configuration.sid}/Sms/send").
with(:body => {:To => 1234, :Body => "test sms"}, :headers => {'Accept'=>'*/*', 'User-Agent'=>'Ruby'}).
to_return(:body => resps.to_json, :headers => {})
end
it 'returns response object for success' do
response = Generator::Exotel.send(:to => 1234, :body => "test sms")
expect(response.to_json).to eq (resps.to_json)
end
end
describe '#failure' do
let(:resp) { {"Status"=>"401", "Message"=>"Not Authenticated"} }
before do
stub_request(:post, "https://test_sid:test_token#twilix.exotel.in/v1/Accounts/#{Generator::configuration.sid}/Sms/send").
with(:body => {:To => 1234, :Body => "test sms"}, :headers => {'Accept'=>'*/*', 'User-Agent'=>'Ruby'}).
to_return(:body=> resp.to_json, :headers => {})
end
it 'returns response object for failure' do
response = Generator::Exotel.send(:to => 1234, :body => "test sms")
expect(response.to_json).to eq (resp.to_json)
end
end
end
Whenever i run rspec, i am getting this following error
Generator::Exotel #success returns response object for success
Failure/Error: response = self.class.post("/#{Generator::configuration.sid}/Sms/send", {:body => params, :basic_auth => auth })
WebMock::NetConnectNotAllowedError:
Real HTTP connections are disabled. Unregistered request: POST https://twilix.exotel.in/v1/Accounts/test_sid/Sms/send with body 'To=1234&Body=test%20sms' with headers {'Accept'=>'*/*', 'Accept-Encoding'=>'gzip;q=1.0,deflate;q=0.6,identity;q=0.3', 'Authorization'=>'Basic dGVzdF9zaWQ6dGVzdF90b2tlbg==', 'User-Agent'=>'Ruby'}
You can stub this request with the following snippet:
stub_request(:post, "https://twilix.exotel.in/v1/Accounts/test_sid/Sms/send").
with(:body => "To=1234&Body=test%20sms",
:headers => {'Accept'=>'*/*', 'Accept-Encoding'=>'gzip;q=1.0,deflate;q=0.6,identity;q=0.3', 'Authorization'=>'Basic dGVzdF9zaWQ6dGVzdF90b2tlbg==', 'User-Agent'=>'Ruby'}).
to_return(:status => 200, :body => "", :headers => {})
registered request stubs:
stub_request(:post, "https://test_sid:test_token#twilix.exotel.in/v1/Accounts/test_sid/Sms/send").
with(:body => {"Body"=>"test sms", "To"=>1234},
:headers => {'Accept'=>'*/*', 'User-Agent'=>'Ruby'})
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I have googled a lot and found some solutions, i.e,
Solution 1
Relish Documentation
“WebMock::NetConnectNotAllowedError”
Also i had a look at this post , But in vain.
Also i tried using WebMock.disable_net_connect!(:allow_localhost => true)
but got the same result. Anyone know what am i doing wrong? I am really new to ruby and for first time i am writing specs and its really confusing me.

Answer 1

You cannot make external http requests with webmock, as rightly said by various posts that you mentioned. I notice your stubbed urls have interpolated variables in them ie "https://test_sid:test_token#twilix.exotel.in/v1/Accounts/#{Generator::configuration.sid}/Sms/send". You need to:
Make sure Generator::configuration.sid is accessible within the specs
If it's not accessible then just return a plain url which is perfectly fine