Avoiding Network Calls In Rails Tests Without Using Mocks, Stubs or VCR - Code with Jason

An important principle of testing is that tests should be deterministic. The passing or failing of a test shouldn’t depend on the date it was run, whether any certain other tests ran before it, or whether some condition outside the application changed.If a test hits an external URL then it’s susceptible to being non-deterministic. I’ll give you an example from something I was working on today.