Let VCR skips URI :

Question

I neet VCR to skip just https://api.github.com/users/lapaty/starred calling the real external API, while going on mocking similar path like https://api.github.com/repos/lgs/elasticrepo

Until now I tried the followings, without any success :

VCR.configure do |c|
  ... 
  c.ignore_hosts 'api.github.com/users/lapaty/starred'
end

and

VCR.configure do |c|
  ... 
  c.ignore_request do |request|
    URI(request.uri).uri == 'https://api.github.com/users/lapaty/starred'
  end  
end     

Answer 1

c.ignore_hosts 'api.github.com/users/lapaty/starred' will never work, as api.github.com/users/lapaty/starred is not a host.

For the second thing you tried, the URI(request.uri).uri part is unnecessary -- you're parsing the string as a uri, then getting the string representation out of that (which should give you just request.uri). I think this should work:

VCR.configure do |c|
  c.ignore_request do |request|
    request.uri == 'https://api.github.com/users/lapaty/starred'
  end  
end

If it's not working, then it suggests that the URI string is not exactly "https://api.github.com/users/lapaty/starred" like you think it is. You can add some puts logging in the ignore_request block to see what requests are being made, or you can use the debug_logger option to get detailed insight into exactly what VCR is doing and why.