title: Using Cucumber to test controller without a view in Rails
body: <p>I'm a ruby/rails newbie and the application I'm developing starts with a HTTP post from another website which passes in some data and then displays some data capture screens before calling a web service.</p>
  
  <p>I want to start this project using an outside in approach using Cucumber for integration tests and rspec for functional/unit testing.</p>
  
  <p>Using Cucumber how do I simulate the post from the external website so that I can test the flows with the application.</p>