cucumber_fakeweb_hook.rb

# config/initializers/cucumber_fakeweb_hook.rb

# If this looks like a test server process, make its FakeWeb available to other
# processes via DRb. That way Cucumber (which runs in a separate process) can
# dynamically register stubs for this server to use.

if Rails.env =~ /^culerity/
  require 'drb'
  require 'fakeweb'
  DRb.start_service("druby://localhost:30010", FakeWeb)
  puts "=> FakeWeb is available at #{DRb.uri}"
end

env.rb

# features/support/env.rb

require 'drb'

DRb.start_service
$remote_fakeweb = DRbObject.new(nil, "druby://localhost:30010")

# Clean FakeWeb's registry before each scenario
Before do
  $remote_fakeweb.clean_registry
end

fakeweb_steps.rb

# features/step_definitions/fakeweb_steps.rb

Given "the example site responds with a 200 OK" do
  $remote_fakeweb.register_uri(:get, "http://example.com", :status => [200, "OK"])
end