Dealing with Webmock

[mltsy]

I'm using webmock in my tests and I can't figure out a good way to deal with it blocking webdrivers' requests. I've tried not requiring webmock in the gem file, and explicitly requiring it after webdrivers in test_helper.rb and it still blocks the request... do you have a good method for avoiding this problem?

Where do you normally require 'webdrivers' ? Do you use webmock? Is there a command I can call to make it download the drivers immediately so it doesn't get caught after webmock is initialized?

[titusfortner]

I do not use webmock, but it should let you stub only the internet calls you want?

I think it black lists by default, but you can whitelist: https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases, http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com

I require it in spec_helper.rb

[mltsy]

Well that sounds simple enough :) Pokes a couple holes in the webmock wall, but I guess as long as you're not testing anything to do with webdrivers, it shouldn't be a problem!

I ended up just adding the webdrivers I needed to the image I was using rather than installing them as part of the test run. But this solution certainly seems like it should work 👍

[Crisfole]

For future viewers of this:

WebMock.disable_net_connect!({
  allow_localhost: true,
  allow: 'chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com'
})

[jrochkind]

I ran into this switching from chromedriver-helper to webdrivers.

It is a gotcha. If the URLs that webdrivers tries to contact change in the future, of course the Webmock setup would have to be changed too.

This is related to #29

The allow: 'chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com' worked. Of course if webdrivers ever changes what urls it has to contact, or contacts different URLs in different configurations (if I switch to FF instead of Chrome say?), it would have to be adjusted.