title: Continuous third party APIs monitoring & testing on Rails
body: <p>We would like to setup automated jobs (via <code>Jenkins</code>) to alert if the third party API is down or they deployed an incompatible APIs. </p>
  
  <p>I am talking about to test against the real <code>HTTP APIs</code> and not a mock, but as we already have mock written using <code>rspec</code>, I am not sure if we should duplicate the effort by writing two independent testes.</p>
  
  <p>Anyone have this experience in this before? 
  (I am not limited to <code>Ruby/Rspec</code> if other tools can help)</p>