Debug RESTful calls for fun and profit

When using ActiveResource it can be quite useful to print Webservice calls going out and XML responses coming in. It allows me to debug things, it allows me to create useful Httpmocks for testing code that uses the resource.

Somewhat unobtrusive way of doing this is, stick following code to some library file:

module ActiveResource
  class Connection
    alias_method :old_request, :request
 
    def request(method, path, * arguments)
      response = old_request(method, path, * arguments)
      if (response && response.code.to_i == 200 && APP_CONFIG['debug_resource_call'])
        puts("********** method is #{method} and path is #{path} ********** ")
        puts response.body
      end
      response
    end
  end
end

And off I can go with Httpmock

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