Feature: Freezing Time When dealing with an HTTP API that includes time-based compontents in the request (e.g. for signed S3 requests), it can be useful on playback to freeze time to what it originally was when the cassette was recorded so that the request is always the same each time your test is run. While VCR doesn't directly support time freezing, it does expose `VCR::Cassette#originally_recorded_at`, which you can easily use with a library like [timecop](https://github.com/travisjeffery/timecop) to freeze time. Note: `VCR::Cassette#originally_recorded_at` will return `nil` when the cassette is recording for the first time, so you'll probably want to use an expression like `cassette.originally_recorded_at || Time.now` so that it will work when recording or when playing back. Scenario: Previously recorded responses are replayed Given a previously recorded cassette file "cassettes/example.yml" with: """ --- http_interactions: - request: method: get uri: http://example.com/events/since/2013-09-23T17:00:30Z body: encoding: UTF-8 string: "" headers: {} response: status: code: 200 message: OK headers: Content-Length: - "20" body: encoding: UTF-8 string: Some Event http_version: "1.1" recorded_at: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 17:00:30 GMT recorded_with: VCR 2.0.0 """ Given a file named "freeze_time.rb" with: """ruby require 'time' require 'timecop' require 'vcr' VCR.configure do |vcr| vcr.cassette_library_dir = 'cassettes' vcr.hook_into :webmock end VCR.use_cassette('example') do |cassette| Timecop.freeze(cassette.originally_recorded_at || Time.now) do path = "/events/since/#{Time.now.getutc.iso8601}" response = Net::HTTP.get_response('example.com', path) puts "Response: #{response.body}" end end """ When I run `ruby freeze_time.rb` Then it should pass with "Response: Some Event"