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Partial post body matching with webmock

When using webmock to stub out a post, you can specify that the post has a specific body. When dealing with web apis, that body is json and you want to compare the body to a ruby hash, from the webmock README, that looks like this:

stub_request(:post, "www.example.com").
  with(body: {a: '1', b: 'five'})

In the above example, the whole json body has to be represented in the hash. Webmock provides a way to just examine a portion of the json/hash with the hash_including method. This is not the rspec hash_including this is a webmock specific function using the WebMock::Matchers::HashIncludingMatcher class.

stub_request(:post, "www.example.com").
  with(body: hash_including({a: '1'}))
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