In Ruby, using Cucumber, should I mock out calls to a webservice?

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Published on 2010-05-28T11:03:49Z Indexed on 2010/05/28 13:31 UTC
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All,

I'm using Cucumber for acceptance testing a Ruby command line utility. This utility pulls data in from a webservice.

I understand Cucumber is for acceptance testing and tests the whole stack but I still need to provide consistant replies from the webservice.

Should I mock the webservice? If yes, how? What's the best approach here?

Cheers, Gordon

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