Getting Started with Webrat, Selenium, Rails and Firefox 3 | Viget Extend

Firefox 5.0.1, which we were using for most Rails 2.3 projects, does not run on Ubuntu 14.04 any more. Here is how to update affected projects.

1. Update (or create) .firefox-version with the content: 24.0
   If you haven't installed Firefo...

Find conditions for scopes can be given either as an array (:conditions => ['state = ?', 'draft']) or a hash (:conditions => { 'state' => 'draft' }). The later is nicer to read, but has horrible security implications in some versions of Ru...

There is a problem with AJAX response handling for Rails 3 remote links and forms in Internet Explorer. This problem affects applications still using jQuery 1.4.2.

XPath matchers can be combined with CSS-selector matchers. This is really useful if not, for example, the content of an element should be matched but the element itself like in the following example. Here a form is used to display data as default ...

To make the RSpec matcher of the authorization solution Consul work with Rspec 2.x read the following blog post.

You probably need to activate X-Sendfile.

General

Programatically invoke Rails generators

Require the generator, instantiate it and invoke it (because generators are Thor::Groups, you need to invoke them with invoke_all). Example:

 require 'generators/wheelie/haml...

In this presentation, I demoed Cucumber and Webrat. I also talked about Integrity and how I like to put it all together.

To achieve this goal you have to setup the session store like the following example:

  MyApp::Application.config.session_store(
    :cookie_store,
    {
      :key => '_myapp_session',
      :domain => :all, # :all defaults to da tld length o...

A while ago we were working on an application that had an entire version specially created for mobiles, such as the iPhone. This specific application was entirely tested with Capybara, Steak and Selenium Webdriver. Although the test suite wasn’t t...