# Mock external requests to youtube require 'webmock/rspec' WebMock.disable_net_connect!(allow_localhost: true, allow: /stripe.com/) RSpec.configure do |config| config.before(:each) do mock_commercial_request end end def mock_commercial_request response = { author_name: 'Confreaks', html: '', thumbnail_width: 480, thumbnail_url: 'https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BTTygyxuGj8/hqdefault.jpg', provider_name: 'YouTube', width: 459, type: 'video', provider_url: 'http://www.youtube.com/', version: '1.0', thumbnail_height: 360, title: 'RailsConf 2014 - Closing Keynote by Aaron Patterson', author_url: 'https://www.youtube.com/user/Confreaks', height: 344 } WebMock.stub_request(:get, /.*youtube.*/) .to_return(status: 200, body: response.to_json, headers: {}) end