Mocha test retry to connect up to 10 times

Ruby
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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!

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On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 14:57 +0900, Raymond O’connor wrote:

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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Hemant K. wrote:

On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 14:57 +0900, Raymond O’connor wrote:

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.

That worked perfectly! Thanks a ton!