title: How do you automate integration testing between an Android app and a Rails application
body: <p>I am writing an android application that interacts with a Rails app via json.</p>
  
  <p>I rails I build tests with rspec. Language is ruby.</p>
  
  <p>Android I have been testing in junit.  Language is java.</p>
  
  <p>For simplicity lets say that the ruby app produces an object called Message that has an ID, and Data when you hit myapp.com/messages</p>
  
  <p>On the android side, when the app runs it hits the webservice and parses that json and builds that message object.</p>
  
  <p>The final product expected would be some sort of automated test that asserts that when a message is created on the rails app the android app has that object.</p>
  
  <p>I know this is an integration test so I am not expecting this to be fast (though that would be nice).  Instead I am looking for how to approach this problem.</p>