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<p>Hi James,<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/09/2018 11:07, James Adam wrote:<br>
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On 11 Sep 2018, at 10:07, Samuel Joseph <<a
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1) new developers onboarding often get snarled up in the
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<div>I tend to consider the generated YAML files as black boxes
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Yes, that makes sense. I don't think the problem is the new
developers looking inside the files so much as not being sure about
whether to add the files, leave them out, .gitignore them or what.
And new cached files seem to get generated when tests fail on a
developers machine (for whatever reason) and then a slightly
different set of network interactions follows. Or more specifically
when a developer is working on a new feature and adding to the tests
and then seeing a load of new cassettes and not being sure what to
do, or even getting confused at a given point about whether the
tests are hitting the network are not.
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<div class="">2) the cached recordings are gradually getting
further and further out of date - could we automate their
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<div class="">VCR _can_ be configured to automatically re-record
after a fixed period of time, would that help? <a
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I didn't know that - that's very helpful thankyou!<br>
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Having read the documentation it sounds like that would just throw
out the cached files at a point that one might easily forget about
and have to cope with the change while in the middle of working on
another feature. I was really hoping that there might be a
dependabot style system that would submit a pull request once a
month with the re-recorded cache files ... I wonder how hard that
would be to create ...?<br>
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Many thanks again<br>
Best, Sam<br>
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