the error:
 

   Failure/Error: client = twitterController.sign_in_as_tagoid
     WebMock::NetConnectNotAllowedError:
       Real HTTP connections are disabled. Unregistered request: GET https://api.twitter.com/1/account/verify_credentials.json with headers {'Accept'=>'application/json', 'Authorization'=>'OAuth oauth_consumer_key="P0O33Z4p4o0XltMlcPZ3A", oauth_nonce="962c77e088b7427895f0628fea5990f7", oauth_signature="1k%2BFVLF%2BqFlogPwNgtwD7xctJA0%3D", oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1", oauth_timestamp="1296828033", oauth_token="14980953-MbJv9wiK8fjZtvYClI7Kyt778R0JurPIxuIOyiQFV", oauth_version="1.0"', 'User-Agent'=>'Twitter Ruby Gem 1.1.1'}
       
       You can stub this request with the following snippet:
       
       stub_request(:get, "https://api.twitter.com/1/account/verify_credentials.json").
         with(:headers => {'Accept'=>'application/json', 'Authorization'=>'OAuth oauth_consumer_key="P0O33Z4p4o0XltMlcPZ3A", oauth_nonce="962c77e088b7427895f0628fea5990f7", oauth_signature="1k%2BFVLF%2BqFlogPwNgtwD7xctJA0%3D", oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1", oauth_timestamp="1296828033", oauth_token="14980953-MbJv9wiK8fjZtvYClI7Kyt778R0JurPIxuIOyiQFV", oauth_version="1.0"', 'User-Agent'=>'Twitter Ruby Gem 1.1.1'}).
         to_return(:status => 200, :body => "", :headers => {})


My code:

      verification_data = File.open("#{Rails.root}/features/fixtures/verify_credentials.json", 'rb') { |file| file.read }
      stub_request(:get, "https://api.twitter.com/1/account/verify_credentials.json").
              with(:headers => {'Accept'=>'application/json', 'Authorization'=>'OAuth oauth_consumer_key="P0O33Z4p4o0XltMlcPZ3A", oauth_nonce="8829efab5e19b74f6a49e7ad8ad49a86", oauth_signature="jFkvoEQSbIT5lumj%2Bqq00jndAhc%3D", oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1", oauth_timestamp="1296557983", oauth_token="14980953-MbJv9wiK8fjZtvYClI7Kyt778R0JurPIxuIOyiQFV", oauth_version="1.0"', 'User-Agent'=>'Twitter Ruby Gem 1.1.1'}).
              to_return(:status => 200, :body => verification_data, :headers => {})