Running Pact against test environment in Rails API - ruby-on-rails

Question

Just playing around with Pact against my Rails API and noticed that the out-of-the-box Pact setup runs against the "development" environment by default.
How do I configure to run against the "test" environment without having to specify it in command line when I run the task (RAILS_ENV=test). Couldn't find it easily in the docs how to do it.
Using following gems:
pact (1.10.0)
pact-mock_service (0.12.1)
pact-support (0.6.0)
pact_helper.rb:
require 'pact/provider/rspec'
Pact.service_provider 'Auslan API Service' do
honours_pact_with 'Auslan Web App' do
# This example points to a local file, however, on a real project with a continuous
# integration box, you would use a [Pact Broker](https://github.com/bethesque/pact_broker) or publish your pacts as artifacts,
# and point the pact_uri to the pact published by the last successful build.
pact_uri './user-specs-user-api.json' # need to update this
end
end
Pact.configure do | config |
config.diff_formatter = :embedded
end
Pact.provider_states_for 'User-Specs' do
provider_state 'there are users already added inside the database' do
set_up do
user1 = User.create(email: 'abcd#a.au', first_name: 'Jane', last_name: 'Doe', password: 'abcd#1234')
# set the Auth token
token = Knock::AuthToken.new(payload: { sub: user1.id }).token
pacts = File.join(File.dirname(File.expand_path(__FILE__)), '../../user-specs-user-api.json')
Dir.glob(pacts).each do |f|
text = File.read(f)
output_of_gsub = text.gsub(/\"Authorization\"\s*:\s*\".+\"/) { "\"Authorization\": \"Bearer #{token}\"" }
File.open(f, "w") { |file| file.puts output_of_gsub }
end
end
end
end
Thanks,
Mo

Answer 1

I haven't written any code to allow that to happen. The part of the code where the app gets loaded is here: https://github.com/pact-foundation/pact-ruby/blob/master/lib/pact/provider/configuration/service_provider_dsl.rb#L16
You can override the app in the configuration if you have a handle to it, but I can't remember how to do that with with a Rails app off the top of my head. Maybe you could have a play around with the Rack builder and see if you can pass in any environment variables to it. I'd be happy to accept a PR if you can work out how to do it.