I just released moviesapi. In the post I introduced it, I mentioned wanting to be able to add reliable tests. Ben Keeping responsed suggesting that I have a look at VCR. So I did. It’s a Ruby library that records the web requests that your application depends upon and saves it down to disk. On subsequent test runs, it reuses (“replays”) the previously saved data, vastly increasing the speed. For screenscraping tools like moviesapi or UrbanScraper, I can verify that my code is behaving c...
