Ruby REST and browser based web test example

rest_web_test_example.rb

#!/usr/bin/ruby
#
# Requires that you have installed the following gem packages: 
# json, minitest, watir, watir-webdrive, rest-client
# To use Chrome, you need to install chromedriver on your path
# 
# You can use cucumber instead of minitest. There are also other REST clients for Ruby
#

require 'rubygems'
require 'rest-client'  
require 'json'
require 'pp'
require 'minitest/autorun'
require 'watir'
require 'watir-webdriver'


class TestReportSystem < MiniTest::Unit::TestCase
    def setup
      @browser = Watir::Browser.new :chrome # Defaults to firefox. Can do Safari and IE too.
      # Log in here.....
    end

    def teardown
      @browser.close
    end
    
    def test_report_lists   # For minitest, the method names need to start with test
      response = RestClient.get 'http://localhost:8080/reporter/reports/getReportList'
      assert_equal response.code,200
      parsed = JSON.parse response.to_str
      assert_equal parsed.length, 3
    end
    
    def test_on_browser
      @browser.goto 'http://localhost:8080/reporter/exampleReport/simple/genReport?month=Aug&year=2012'
      assert(@browser.text.include?('Report for Aug 2012'))
    end
end