I have a php app that is going through a migration to rails. We are currently sharing the session from php to rails using memcached. The problem that has arisen is now testing has become difficult. I can't make remote requests using capybara to write functional that really test the full application.
The only solution I have come up with is mocking out the memcached communication, which isn't what I really want in integration testing.
Does anyone have any better options for this? I've tried other capybara drivers, such as mechanize, but I can't get external pages to load.