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Getting Started with External Services

Explore how to test external service integrations in Ruby on Rails applications by using strategies like adapters and the VCR gem. Learn to avoid slow or unreliable tests caused by actual API calls, ensuring your test suite runs efficiently and reliably even without internet access.

External services

The one thing our project-management tool needs is a bit of graphical spark. Specifically, we’ve been asked to have users’ Twitter avatars show up on the site attached to completed tasks. (Handily, Twitter has a Ruby gem that’s not too hard to set up).

Since this is “Rails Test ...