#mighty-adin_best-practices

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quasi sluice
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I have found mention of the VCR gem as a tool for recording/replaying flows against the Stripe API. My concern is that it would create a brittle mocking resource, and any randomized strings (eg uuids) would need special handling, and any change to our product would require re-recording thet "Cassette" all the time

deft crystal
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Hi! We don't really have a lot for integration testing, and stripe-mock is meant more for unit testing.

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Some folks do use test mode, but it's less than ideal, since you're effectively testing Stripe at that point rather than your application.

quasi sluice
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Yeah, the lack of a solution is apparent. But my assumption is that other companies have found ways to work around this limitation. We just want to align with industry standards

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We're weighing the option of hitting the real API in Test Mode for a limited set of tests. But that obviously won't scale, and introduces an external dependency

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you're effectively testing Stripe at that point rather than your application.

Also this

deft crystal
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I suspect generally they'll use their own mock setup specific to their test cases - it is definitely suboptimal to include Stripe in your test suite if you can help it.

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Ya, we either work or don't but that's not something your test suite needs to handle. 🤪

quasi sluice
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My hope was that this Discord would be a place where I could get a crowd-sourced solution. But it seems like you're pretty aggressive about closing these threads, so I don't anticipate I'll get a chance to hear from other devs...

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Like 'who out there is using VCR?' is not a question I can get answered it seems

deft crystal
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Ya, it doesn't work like how IRC worked before - this is one thread per asker.

quasi sluice
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So even if they arrived in time before the thread was closed, I'm the only non-moderator with permssions to reply in this thread?

deft crystal
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Yes.

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Well, no 😂 but we will have the other person move on unless they're part of your organization and working on the same problem

quasi sluice
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Okay, so I guess I'll need to go to stackoverflow or something to hear from other RoR devs

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I appreciate you jumping in, but I'm not really getting what I was hoping to

deft crystal
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I'm sorry to hear that. StackOverflow might be a good next step, ya.