In Rspec how does one download content - ruby-on-rails

Question

I want to download from a website during my rspec test
I do not want to stub the API usage for this specific function.
I don't plan on doing a heap of test against an API. For that I hope shall trust the stubbing.
But I think it's a good idea to do at least one test against an API.
Here is some sample code that replicates the issue I'm having:
require 'vcr'
context 'test vcr off' do
it 'should work' do
VCR.turn_off!
res = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI('http://www.google.com.au/?q=tester'))
print res.body
end
end
Here's the error I'm getting:
Failure/Error: res = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI('http://www.google.com.au/?q=tester'))
WebMock::NetConnectNotAllowedError:
Real HTTP connections are disabled. Unregistered request: GET http://www.google.com.au/?q=tester with headers
{'Accept'=>'*/*',
'Accept-Encoding'=>'gzip;q=1.0,deflate;q=0.6,identity;q=0.3',
'Host'=>'www.google.com.au', 'User-Agent'=>'Ruby'}
You can stub this request with the following snippet:
stub_request(:get, "http://www.google.com.au/?q=tester").
with(:headers => {'Accept'=>'*/*', 'Accept-Encoding'=>'gzip;q=1.0,deflate;q=0.6,identity;q=0.3', 'Host'=>'www.google.com.au', 'User-Agent'=>'Ruby'}).
to_return(:status => 200, :body => "", :headers => {})
The Doc's I've read on VCR indicate that the above code should work.

Answer 1

I really hate when this happens..
I search and search for an answer and then I post a question.
Then minutes later I find the answer..
1 require 'vcr'
2 context 'test vcr off' do
3 it 'should work' do
4 VCR.turn_off!
5 WebMock.disable_net_connect!(:allow => "www.google.com.au")
6 res = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI('http://www.google.com.au/?q=tester'))
7 print res.body
8 end
9 end
The answer was on line 5.. this let me make the call.. I mean I get a pile of junk on the screen, but it doesn't fail... no exception.