The way MySQL's FULLTEXT tokenizer splits text into word tokens might not always be what you need. E.g. it splits a word at period characters.

Since the tokenizer has near-zero configuration options (minimum word length and stopwords list), you n...

The new version of Spreewald makes it easier to inspect form values.

Testing the value of any type of input control

• When the step `Then the "foo" field s...

Cucumber up to version 2 had a neat feature called Step Argument Transforms which was dropped in favor of Cucumber 3 [ParameterTypes](https://cucumber.io/blog/upgrading-to-cucum...

When you want to look up a class for a given factory, do it like this:

>> FactoryBot.factories.find('admin').build_class
=> User

In older versions, you could do:

>> FactoryBot.factory_by_name('admin').build_class
=> User

FactoryBot allows a :class option to its factory definitions, to set the class to construct. However, this option is not supported for traits.

Most often, you can just define a nested factory instead of a trait, and use the :class option ...

While it might seem trivial to implement an invoice that sums up items and shows net, gross and vat totals, it actually involves a lot of rules and caveats. It is very easy to create invoices where numbers don't add up and a few cents are missing....

The new exception_notification has awesome options like :ignore_crawlers => true and :ignore_if => lambda { ... }. These options should be helpful in ensuring every notifications means so...

FactoryBot.define do

  factory :parent do
    transient do
      child_name nil
      child_allowed_to_drive false
    end
    
    child do
      association(:child, name: child_name, allowed_to_drive: child_allowed_to_drive)
    end
  e...

Or: How to avoid and refactor spaghetti code

Please note that I tried to keep the examples small. The effects of the methods in this card are of course much more significant with real / more complex code.

What are the benefits of more modular ...

Expiration of Rails sessions

By default Rails sessions expire when the user closes her browser window.

To change this edit your config/initializers/session_store.rb like this:

ActionController::Base.session = ...