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Understand why we test: Low defect rate without a QA department. Customer acceptance testing can concentrate on new features...
Learn to create test data effectively using factories. Decouple tests by having each test start with an empty database...
Basic validations Read the Rails Guide on ActiveRecord Validations. You should have an overview which kinds of validations are built...
Understand at least the following CSS concepts: Classes Selecting elements for styling Basic styling (color, typography, spacing)
When your code does not behave as expected, you can use a debugger statement ("breakpoint") at any point in your...
makandra's development process Learn about our process. The squares represent the state of the issue in Linear:
Read the Rails Guide about Active Record migrations Understand why we never use models in migrations. Checkout the repository...
Learn to treat files as an ActiveRecord attribute type, like :string or :integer Research Look at the README for...
Advanced cucumber features Learn about the following cucumber features: Doc Strings ("multiline strings") Tables Tags Before/after hooks Background Scenario outlines...
We use Selenium WebDriver integrated with Cucumber/Capybara for full-stack integration testing. Try and use it Your forked MovieDB should...
Understand the differences between git diff and git diff --staged (or git diff --cached) Understand the difference between git...
What is a Cookie? Google it if you do not know. How are cookies transferred between your browser and...
Authentication is all about being able to verify the identity of a user in the context of our application.
Watch Solving bizarre authorization requirements with Rails Read the Consul README Read the assignable_values README Understand how Consul...
Resources RubyGuides: Mastering Ruby Regular Expressions Using regular expressions in JavaScript Testing regular expressions visually Regular Expressions: Quantifier modes...
Software engineering principles Read about the following software engineering principles and code smells: Single Responsibility Principle Law of Demeter
Get an idea of the varying support for HTML/CSS/JavaScript features in different browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Edge...
While working on a Rails application, your code base will grow a collection of different file types including: Ruby (business...
We are using the BEM pattern ("Block, Element, Modifier") to structure our CSS in all new projects. We try to...
Just like we use gems on the server, we use third party JavaScript libraries in the browser. These typically provide...
In a web application you often need to move data between the client (HTML, Javascript) and the server (Ruby, Rails...
Rubymonk training Read the following Rubymonk articles: Ruby Primer: Ascent (archived copy) Metaprogramming Ruby (archived copy) Metaprogramming Ruby: Ascent (archived...
Method lookup Understand all the terms in How Ruby method lookup works, in particular: include extend singleton class