Trying to get selenium working in rails 3 - “WebMock::NetConnectNotAllowedError”

Question

I\'m trying to use selenium for the first time in a rails 3 app. (I\'ve used it before with rails 2). I\'m in an rvm which of course has its own gemset.

I first r

Answer 1

Good suggestions here. Another, more fine-tuneable, solution:

WebMock.disable_net_connect!(
  allow: [
    'localhost',
    'dynamo:8000',
    'pact-broker:81'
  ]
)

Works especially well for whitelisting docker-compose containers!