I have a question about Rails Integration Tests. I have this app that talks to this other internal app.
The app makes a request to internal_app, and one of the params for that request involves the session_id, stored in the session cookie.
For a variety of reasons, requests to external services are stubbed out using webmock and vcr gems. This records the request/response to a fixture file, so that the next time the request is run, it hits the fixture file instead of the real service.
My issue, is that the session_id changes each time the test is run. This means that, according to webmock, the request made does not match the request stubbed, which leads to a failed test. In controller tests, I can access the session directly, and change/stub whatever I want in there as desired. With integration tests, I cannot access the session directly, and so I am stuck using whatever session_id Rails generates for the test. Does anyone know of a good way to modify/stub the session_id for integration tests, to something expected? There are some less preferred ways I am considering (involving ditching the vcr gem for those integration tests for example), but I would prefer to find a way to have session_id be some expected value instead.
Tests are made with Capybara/Poltergeist/phantomjs, on a Rails 5.1 application.
