DRY up test vs. production URL

[mike....@gmail.com]

I have noticed that the ability to have a test url vs. a base url is
not baked in. We made these modifications by hand, for Authnet, but it
would be nice to have it built-in.

Glad to have found this group.

Mike Pence
http://mikepence.wordpress.com

[Cody Fauser]

Mike,

We are currently passing the parameter x_test_request = TRUE to
Authorize.net when ActiveMerchant::Billing::Base.mode == :test

Is there a benefit to using the test url as opposed to running the
test transactions using x_test_request?

Cody

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[Mike Pence]

Cody,

I really enjoyed your RJS booklet.

Testing against a test URL allows the developers to be insulated from
even *knowing* the production credit card login credentials. Leave
that to the operations people.

Best,
Mike Pence

[Cody Fauser]

Mike,

> I really enjoyed your RJS booklet.

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

> Testing against a test URL allows the developers to be insulated from
> even *knowing* the production credit card login credentials. Leave
> that to the operations people.

It seems as though our definition of having a test URL and live URL
isn't sufficient and is confused between the gateways. There are
really three environments for many/most gateways:

- Test environment for developers. Requests sent to a test URL
- Live environment for the deployed app in a test mode. Requests sent
to the live URL
- Live environment for the deployed app in production mode. Requests
sent to the live URL

Tobi and I have discussed this issue, as we want to allow Shopify
users to use the test mode of the gateway deployed in the live
production environment, if supported by the gateway, but I haven't
really worked on it yet.

Also, do you have a link to any documentation for the Authorize.net
test environment? The AIM_guide.pdf doesn't seem to mention it and
only mentions x_test_request.

We're also looking to round up some documentation and examples, so if
you have anything like that to contribute, we'd love to include it.

Cody

On 11/23/06, Mike Pence <mike....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Cody,

[Cody Fauser]

I have updated the Authorize.net Gateway in ActiveMerchant to support
the Test URL.

The x_test_request parameter can still be set by constructing the
gateway with the option :test => true. This allows the Test requests
to be sent in production mode with the production credentials.

Cody