Setting up VCR for Rails

Question

I'm currently trying to get VCR to run correctly for my app. Right now everything seems to be configured right but I must be missing something because when the test that uses the VCR.use_cassette is not render the response in the yml file I have set up. I'll post all of my code that is pertaining the issue and let me know if I'm doing something wrong.

/support/vcr.rb:

    VCR.configure do |c|
  c.configure_rspec_metadata!
  c.cassette_library_dir = Rails.root.join("spec", "vcr")
  c.hook_into :webmock
  c.after_http_request do |request, _response|
    VCR.http_requests_made << request
  end
end

Request spec:

 require "rails_helper"

describe "Mailchimp" do
  describe "Manage list" do
    let!(:subscriber) { FactoryGirl.create(:subscriber) }

    it "adds new subscriber to list" do
      expect do
        VCR.use_cassettes("mailchimp/list") do
          post new_subscriber_path
        end.to change(:subscriber, :count).by(1)
      end
    end
  end
end

YML file: /vcr/mailchimp/list.yml

NOTHING RENDERS. THIS IS WHERE I EXPECT THE RESPONSE FOR VCR BUT I"M GETTING NOTHING.

Hopefully this is enough info. let me know if you need more?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 12 '16 at 04:30

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Try adding

VCR.configure do |config|
  config.allow_http_connections_when_no_cassette = true
end

answered Jul 12 '16 at 04:30

nikkypx

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 10 '16 at 03:13

I can't pin-point what the error might have been in your case, but here are my thoughts:

require "rails_helper"

describe "Mailchimp" do
  describe "Manage list" do
    let!(:subscriber) { FactoryGirl.create(:subscriber) }

    it "adds new subscriber to list" do
      expect do
        VCR.use_cassette("mailchimp/list") do
          post new_subscriber_path
        end
      end.to change(:subscriber, :count).by(1)
    end
  end
end

Changes made,

Moved the VCR call into the expectation block
Changed to VCR.use_cassete

Let me know if it works.

I appreciate The help but that doesn't seem to do the job... although that is some obvious stuff I should have noticed. Thanks — Bitwise, Jul 10 '16 at 03:37

Setting up VCR for Rails

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