faketwitter

Factory goodness for twitter search responses wrapped in FakeWeb awesomeness.

irb(main):001:0> require 'faketwitter'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> require 'twitter_search'
=> true
irb(main):003:0> FakeTwitter.register_search("#cheese", {:results => [{:text => "#cheese is good"}]})
=> [#<FakeWeb::Responder:0x19792c0 @times=1, @uri="http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%23cheese", @options={:body=>"{"results":[{"text":"#cheese is good","from_user":"jojo","to_user_id":null,"id":1,"from_user_id":1,"iso_language_code":"en","source":"&lt;a href=&quot;http:\\/\\/twitter.com\\/&quot;&gt;web&lt;\\/a&gt;","created_at":"Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:31:27 +0000","profile_image_url":"http:\\/\\/s3.amazonaws.com\\/twitter_production\\/profile_images\\/1\\/photo.jpg"}],"since_id":0,"max_id":1,"results_per_page":15,"completed_in":0.008646,"page":1,"query":"%23cheese"}"}, method:get]
irb(main):004:0> TwitterSearch::Client.new('').query('#cheese')
=> [#<TwitterSearch::Tweet:0x196cef8 @id=1, @text="#cheese is good", @created_at="Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:31:27 +0000", @to_user_id=nil, @from_user_id=1, @to_user=nil, @source="&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/&quot;&gt;web&lt;/a&gt;", @iso_language_code="en", @from_user="jojo", @language="en", @profile_image_url="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/1/photo.jpg">]
irb(main):005:0> 

For an example on how to use this in Cucumber see this scenario and the corresponding step definitions.

Documentation is lacking at this point, but there really isn’t much to this gem. Take a look at the code and the corresponding RSpec examples.