There seems to be a nasty bug in Chrome 56 when testing with Selenium and Capybara: Slashes are not written to input fields with fill_in. A workaround is to use javascript / jquery to change the contents of an input field.

Use the following cod...

After I upgraded to Mac OS X Mavericks, I regularly got this error message when running Cucumber features with Selenium:

Element cannot be scrolled into view:[object XrayWrapper [object HTMLInputElement]] (Selenium::WebDriver::Error::MoveTarg...

We are consistently having trouble with selenium-webdriver > 2.5.0 where whenever we try to select an option from a <select> Capybara complains:

No such option 'Foo' in this select box. Available options: 'Foo', 'Bar', 'Baz' (Capybara::Op...

Give your iframe a name attribute (i.e. <iframe name="myframe">) and then simply use

When I press "Foo" in the iframe "myframe"
Then I should see "Bar!" in the iframe "myframe"

Step as follows:

Then /^(.*) in the iframe "([^\"...

Here are some popular mistakes when using nested forms:

• You are using fields_for instead of form.fields_for.
• You forgot to use accepts_nested_attributes in the containing model. Rails won't complain, but nothing will work. In particular...

tl;dr

We recommend configuring Selenium's unhandled prompt behavior to "ignore".

When running tests in a real browser, we use Selenium. Each browser is controlled by a specific driver, e.g. Selenium::WebDriver::Chrome for Chrome.

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Capybara drivers will usually delete all cookies after each scenario. If you need to lose cookie data in the middle of a scenario, you can do this:

browser = Capybara.current_session.driver.browser
if browser.respond_to?(:clear_cookies)

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Slides for Henning's talk on Sep 21st 2017.

Understanding sync vs. async control flow

Talking to synchronous (or "blocking") API

print('script start')
html = get('/foo')
print(html)
print('s...

tl;dr

• Don't write resources :people, :concerns => :trashable

• Write

  resources :people do
    concerns :trashable
  end
  

Why

Writing a controller spec I encountered this error:

Failure/Error: get :index
ActionControl...

The pitfall

Rails Active Support provides some helpful methods for calculating times and dates, like Duration#ago or [Duration#from_now](https://api.rubyonrail...