[LRUG] VCR caches

[Samuel Joseph]

Hi Dan,

Thanks, that's really interesting.

I guess that was a custom setup, rather than something you could just 
turn on as part of the VCR config?

I think something like this could be the basis of a VCRbot that put in 
PRs with some frequency ...

Many thanks

Best, Sam


On 11/09/2018 11:06, Dan Lucraft wrote:
> I've used VCR in the past, and the way it worked was our test suite 
> had an optional "live" mode, which ran the tests against the live APIs.
>
> This meant a lot more up-front work, in that the tests had to be able 
> to work from VCR stubs AND also be able to do all the real setup work 
> in a live api, but it was very useful.
>
> Every so often we'd run it in live mode, and if the APIs had then 
> changed the VCR stubs would be updated on disc and inspectable before 
> checking them in for changes.
>
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> On 11 September 2018 at 10:07, Samuel Joseph <tansaku at gmail.com 
> <mailto:tansaku at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     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     out of date - could we automate their refreshing?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/672>
>     * https://github.com/vcr/vcr/issues/719
>     <https://github.com/vcr/vcr/issues/719>
>     * https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vcr-ruby/8DoA7MUq-38
>     <https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/vcr-ruby/8DoA7MUq-38>
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>     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
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