Fixing Fakeweb & Coveralls conflict

ruby, testing, troubleshooting

If you've started using Fakeweb to mock HTTP requests but at the same time you have stopped getting coverage reports from Coveralls, you may have inadvertently blocked the coveralls client from reporting.

If you look at the results from your CI, like Travis, you'll probably see the following:

[Coveralls] Submitting to https://coveralls.io/api/v1
Coveralls encountered an exception: FakeWeb::NetConnectNotAllowedError
Real HTTP connections are disabled. Unregistered request: POST https://coveralls.io/api/v1/jobs
/home/travis/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353/gems/fakeweb-1.3.0/lib/fake_web/ext/net_http.rb:53:in `request_with_fakeweb'`
/home/travis/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/request.rb:176:in `block in transmit'
/home/travis/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/http.rb:852:in `start'
/home/travis/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/request.rb:172:in `transmit'
/home/travis/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/request.rb:64:in `execute'
/home/travis/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/request.rb:33:in `execute'
/home/travis/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient.rb:72:in `post'
/home/travis/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353/gems/coveralls-0.7.0/lib/coveralls/api.rb:18:in `post_json'
/home/travis/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353/gems/coveralls-0.7.0/lib/coveralls/simplecov.rb:72:in `format'
/home/travis/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353/gems/simplecov-0.8.2/lib/simplecov/result.rb:46:in `format!'
/home/travis/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353/gems/simplecov-0.8.2/lib/simplecov/configuration.rb:139:in `block in at_exit'
/home/travis/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353/gems/simplecov-0.8.2/lib/simplecov/defaults.rb:54:in `call'
/home/travis/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353/gems/simplecov-0.8.2/lib/simplecov/defaults.rb:54:in `block in <top (required)>''`

The fix is really simple. You need to tell Fakeweb to allow requests to coveralls.io. Fakeweb supports providing a regex to whitelist outgoing connections:

# in your spec_helper.rb
FakeWeb.allow_net_connect = %r[^https?://coveralls.io]
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