Folks this is my scenario
There is this external webhook that I would like to test
Is there a way to use VCR or some other tool to record the POST request the webhook makes to my rails app so I can use it in Rspec to run my tests?
The webhook's body is long and very specific that's why I would like to record the request somehow
Is there a way to achieve this?
I tried Requestbin and Charles to record the request but did not manage to make them work so far
Assuming that when you say the problem input is "too long and too specific" what you mean is that it would be inconvenient to construct it inside a test: a simple solution is to put the post body into a separate file.
You can save an example POST body as a file under test/ or spec/ and then read it and post to your app in a request spec:
post(
my_webhook_path,
params: JSON.parse(File.read(path_to_json_file) # assuming the post body is JSON
)
# expect/assert some things about the effects/response of the request
In the docs you will see that you can also add headers, so it should be possible to construct the exact request.