[LRUG] VCR caches

[Samuel Joseph]

Hi Lrugers,

Any thoughts on how to manage VCR caches effectively in a team context?

https://github.com/vcr/vcr

We have a few open source projects using VCR, and we have the recordings 
of the network communication checked into git so that all developers can 
run tests in a consistent network environment.

I have two concerns

1) new developers onboarding often get snarled up in the caching and the 
files generated
2) the cached recordings are gradually getting further and further out 
of date - could we automate their refreshing?

I have reached out to the VCR community in the past, but haven't had 
much feedback:

* https://github.com/vcr/vcr/issues/672
* https://github.com/vcr/vcr/issues/719
* https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vcr-ruby/8DoA7MUq-38

I wondered if anyone else was using VCR and how they were making it work 
well for them with their team.  Perhaps people are not using it and 
doing something else?

Many thanks in advance

Best, Sam