Test message sending to an AWS SQS queue

spec/integration/aws_sqs_client_spec.rb

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+require 'spec_helper'
+require 'digest'
+
+describe Aws::SQS::Client do
+  subject(:aws_client)  {
+    Aws::SQS::Client.new(
+      access_key_id: ENV['AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'],
+      secret_access_key: ENV['AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'],
+      region: ENV['AWS_REGION']
+    )
+  }
+
+  it "is configured with valid credentials and region" do
+    expect { aws_client.list_queues }.to_not raise_error
+  end
+
+  describe "message dispatching" do
+    let(:queue_name) { "RailsEbJob-integration-testing" }
+    let(:queue_url) do
+      response = aws_client.create_queue(queue_name: queue_name)
+      response.queue_url
+    end
+    let(:message_content) { "this is the content of the message" }
+    let(:md5_digest) { Digest::MD5.hexdigest(message_content) }
+
+    describe "#send_message" do
+      it "is successful" do
+        response = aws_client.send_message(
+          message_body: message_content,
+          queue_url: queue_url
+        )
+
+        expect(response.md5_of_message_body).to match(md5_digest)
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end