How to test background jobs (Sidekiq) with Rspec?

Question

A large part of my application relies on background jobs to process user's websites, so I need to write some tests to cover these.

First question is how to test code that's in a Sidekiq worker class, for example app/workers/some_worker.rb

class SomeWorker
  include Sidekiq::Worker

  def perform(model_id)
    ...
  end
end

Secondly, how do I stub code such as the following so I don't need to actually run workers and slow down my tests?

response = HTTParty.get("http://users-site.com", timeout: 30)

score 13 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 06 '14 at 00:24

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edited Feb 06 '14 at 00:24

Joe Lencioni

answered Mar 30 '13 at 15:49

Mike Perham

Woops I missed that, I see I can use `work = HardWorker.new; work.perform(1, 2)` to run the code. Still not sure how to go about faking external sites for the tests though. – mind.blank Mar 30 '13 at 16:44
1

[Aforementioned Sidekiq wiki page on testing](https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/wiki/Testing). – Sarah Vessels Oct 29 '13 at 15:00
@mind.blank have a look at [VCR](https://github.com/vcr/vcr) for stubbing your API calls – Ruy Diaz Mar 03 '20 at 00:08

score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 03 '13 at 00:39

10

Take a look at the rspec-sidekiq gem I've authored to do exactly this (testing of Sidekiq workers).

answered Jun 03 '13 at 00:39

Phil Ostler

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 26 '20 at 16:28

2

Sidekiq provides a few options for testing your workers

For me it worked after I add these lines at the top of a spec-file

require 'sidekiq/testing'
Sidekiq::Testing.inline!

answered Feb 26 '20 at 16:28

Unkas

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