backdoors.coffee

class World
  # ...

  commandRemote: (commandName, data, callback) ->
    postData = querystring.stringify payload
    options =
      host: @host,
      port: @port,
      path: "#{@path}/#{commandName}",
      method: 'PUT'
      headers:
        'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
        'Content-Length': postData.length
    req = http.request options, (res) =>
      throw new Error('Failed to execute remote command') if res.statusCode == 500
      responseData = ""
      res.on 'data', (data) ->
        responseData += data
      res.on 'end', ->
        result = JSON.parse responseData
        callback result
    req.end postData

backdoors_controller.rb

require 'database_cleaner'

DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation

class BackdoorsController < ApplicationController
  skip_before_filter :verify_authenticity_token

  def get_user_attributes_from_id
    user = User.find params[:user_id]
    render :json => user.attributes.to_json
  end

  def reset_all
    DatabaseCleaner.clean
    render :json => nil
  end

  def stub_provider_response
    provider  = params[:provider]
    response  = JSON.parse params[:response]
    OmniAuth.config.add_mock :twitter, response
    render :json => nil
  end
end

routes.rb

YourApp::Application.routes.draw do
  # ...

  if Rails.env == 'cucumber'
    match '/__backdoors__/:action', :controller => 'backdoors'
  end
end