From: Hemant Kumar <gethemant@...>
Date: 2007-02-23T15:31:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Mocha test retry to connect up to 10 times

On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 14:57 +0900, Raymond O'connor wrote:
> I'm writing a script to connect to an external server.  The problem is
> that the server can be flaky and respond with an error code on some
> requests.  When the response I get is an error I would like to retry
> connecting.  If I retry 10 times and fail to connect, I just abort.
> 
> With mocha I can test the case where each of the 10 attempts receives an
> error code, but I can't figure out a way to stub HTTP so that it will
> return an error only 1 or 2 times, and then return a success.  Anyone
> know a good way to test receiving an error a few times and then
> receiving a success?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
> 

With latest version of Mocha, you can actually do something like this:


TCPSocket.stubs(:open).returns(data1,data2,data3)

where first call would return data1, second call data2 so on and so
forth. I hope, you can use this to your advantage.


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gnufied