These tests are great to have! When you split the logic up into model and proxy layers, most of these tests should move to the proxy layer's test. Also, they should be marked as "testext" tests, which will run only when RAILS_ENV=testext -- Bamboo is usually the only environment that runs testext. testext tests are designed to exercise our external data providers, and are allowed to fail if those providers are unreachable. Regular tests should never fail even if the external site is down.