These steps are now part of Spreewald.

This note describes a Cucumber step that lets you write this:

Then I should see a table with the following rows:
  | Br...

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...

RSpec lets you define the arguments with which you expect a method to be invoked:

subject.should_receive(:say).with('hello')

Sometimes you don't care about the exact arguments. For such cases RSpec comes with [argument constraints](https...

View specs are a powerful tool to test several rendering paths by their cases instead of using a more costing feature spec. This is especially useful because they become quite co...

Download buttons can be difficult to test, especially with Selenium. Depending on browser, user settings and response headers, one of three things can happen:

• The browser shows a "Save as..." dialog. Since it is a modal dialog, we can no longer...

Every Rails response has a default ETag header. In theory this would enable caching for multiple requests to the same resource. Unfortunately the default ETags produced b...

The way Rational#to_s works on Ruby has changed from Ruby 1.9 on. Here is how to get the old behavior back.

You may want this for things where Rationals are being used, like when subtracting Date objects from one another.

What's happening?...

You can usually just use the eq matched to compare two numbers:

expect(deal.total).to eq(120)

If the actual value is a BigDecimal, you might have issues when you match it against a Float:

expect(deal.total_price).to eq(1200.99...

This is a checklist I use to work on issues. For this purpose I extracted several cards related to the makandra process and ported them into a check list and ref...