Testing Paypal Express in ActiveMerchant

Question

How can I test Paypal Express with ActiveMerchant in a Rails 3.2 app with rspec/capybara integration test?

http://www.codyfauser.com/2008/1/17/paypal-express-payments-with-activemerchant ? — KennyPowers, Jan 30 '13 at 09:25
@RobZolkos did you manage to achieve this? I'm trying to do it now, not sure how. — Adam Waite, Jul 22 '13 at 22:36
Unfortunately, this URL no longer exists. Any hints to where to find docs or a tutorial on rspec'ing active_merchant's paypal express gateway would be very helpful! — Anthony Liekens, Apr 15 '14 at 14:32

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 30 '13 at 11:38

You can test by setting:

ActiveMerchant::Billing::Base.mode = :test

PayPal however will require you to enter complete billing information or the API won't even accept it and will return:

Error: There's an error with this transaction. Please enter a complete billing address.

In which case you can supply it with some generic info:

:billing_address => {
    :name     => "Test Person",
    :address1 => "123 W 423 E",
    :city     => "Somewhere",
    :state    => "CA",
    :country  => "US",
    :zip      => "88888"
 }

I'm aware of how to activate test mode with the gateway. My question was how I write an automated integration test with rspec/capybara. — robzolkos, Jan 30 '13 at 12:37

Testing Paypal Express in ActiveMerchant

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