Ruby on Rails » Keeping Up With The Joneses: Keeping Rails and its extensions up to date » Pathfinder Development
There are many wonderful things about Rails and the Rails ecosystem. A clean, well-lighted path for keeping all your extensions up to date is not one of them.
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Upgrading Cucumber and Capybara to the latest versions available for Rails 2
Specify these gem versions in your Gemfile:
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gem 'cucumber-rails', '= 0.3.2' # max version for Rails 2
gem 'capybara', '< 2' # capybara 2+ requires Rails 3
gem 'mime-types', '< 2' # dependeny of capybara
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Lightning Talk: Coverage based Test Case Prioritization in Ruby on Rails
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Ruby and Rails deprecation warnings and how to fix them
Add deprecation warnings and their solution or link to available solutions.
Global access to Rake DSL methods is deprecated. Please include Rake::DSL into classes and modules which use the Rake DSL methods.
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- a snapp...
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Suggested Workflow
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The Ruby Object Model
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Split your parallel tests by execution time and keep execution logs up to date
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