Hi all,
We have a Rails 5.1 app and we recently wanted to use system tests.
However, upon adding them I noticed various weird-behaving issues like
segfaults and stuff.
I suspect that this has to do with the fact that in system tests, a Ruby
server (i.e. puma) is spawned in a thread, that has access to the same code
that our tests use. In that case, what happens if our app is not
thread-safe? Do Rails apps (their code + the gems they use) have to be
thread-safe in order to use the system tests feature?
For example, in our app we have the following pattern, which I believe is
not threadsafe:
module Drivers
# this method is used by all of our application code that needs to access
elasticsearch, so that we maintain a single connection.
# But it's also used inside our tests, so that we truncate data
before/after specific test cases
def self.elasticsearch
@es ||= Elastic::Client.new
end
end
So if the above method is accessed in a system test by both the server test
(i.e. application code executed by puma) and the test code concurrently, it
could result to subtle bugs. Is my understanding correct?
P.S. For the record, we use rspec with capybara and webrick as the server.
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