Railscheck project home page
This project is (or will be) a best effort semi-static verifier for your Ruby on Rails projects. Delivered as a Ruby gem it provides a shell command task "railscheck" that you can run against your Rails projects to test for a number of typical bugs, potential problems and inconsistencies.
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Rails Composer
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How Rails chooses error pages (404, 500, ...) for exceptions
When your controller action raises an unhandled exception, Rails will look at the exception's class and choose an appropriate HTTP status code and error page for the re...
Custom error pages in Rails
Basic error pages
To add a few basic styles to the default error pages in Rails, just edit the default templates in public, e.g. `publi...
How to use Simplecov to find untested code in a Rails project with RSpec and Cucumber
Simplecov is a code coverage tool. This helps you to find out which parts of your application are not tested.
Integrating this in a rails project with rspec, cucumber and parallel_tests is easy.
- Add i...
Documenting your Rails project's Node.js version in .nvmrc
Not all versions of Node.js are compatible with each other. Also npm packages may require a minimum or maximum version of Node.js. We use nvm on our development ...
RSpec: how to prevent the Rails debug page if you want to actually test for 404s
Within development and test environments, Rails is usually configured to show a detailed debug page instead of 404s. However, there might be some cases where you expect a 404 and want to test for it.
An example would be request-specs that ch...
Unpoly: Automatically show the full better_errors page when Rails raises an error
When an AJAX request raises an exception on the server, Rails will show a minimal error page with only basic information. Because all Unpoly updates work using AJAX requests, you won't get the more detailled [better_errors](h...
How to disable Rails raising errors on pending migrations in development
Rails 4 introduced raising an error on pending migrations. This is most annoying when you are crafting a migration but need to play with your application to figu...
Rails routes: Extracting collection actions into their own controllers
Let's say you have two screens:
- Show a given project
- Show a report for all projects
Ideally you want both screens to be handled by different controllers like this:
GET /projects/:id => ProjectsController#show
GET /projects/...
Upgrading Cucumber and Capybara to the latest versions available for Rails 2
Specify these gem versions in your Gemfile:
gem 'cucumber', '~> 1.3.0'
gem 'cucumber-rails', '= 0.3.2' # max version for Rails 2
gem 'capybara', '< 2' # capybara 2+ requires Rails 3
gem 'mime-types', '< 2' # dependeny of capybara
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