Webservice to test and inspect requests
Requestb.in Show archive.org snapshot is a webservice that gives you a temporary URL you can use to test request. The page will automatically record and display the latest web request made to it.
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Capybara: Most okayest helper to download and inspect files
Testing file download links in an end-to-end test can be painful, especially with Selenium.
The attached download_helpers.rb provides a download_link method for your Capybara tests. It returns a hash describing the download...
Bash: How to grep logs for a pattern and expand it to the full request
Example
I, [2024-01-21T06:22:17.484221 #2698200] INFO -- : [4cdad7a4-8617-4bc9-84e9-c40364eea2e4] test
I, [2024-01-21T06:22:17.484221 #2698200] INFO -- : [4cdad7a4-8617-4bc9-84e9-c40364eea2e4] more
I, [2024-01-21T06:22:17.484221 #269820...
How to employ and run your tests with parallel_tests to speed up test execution
When your cucumber features grow massively over time, the test execution can take a lot of time.
One easy way to speed up your test execution is to use the parallel_tests gem.
It comes along with some ...
Rails: Concurrent requests in development and tests
With puma you can have concurrent requests. There are two concepts on how Puma can handle two incoming requests: Workers and Threads.
Workers
Puma can have multiple workers. Each worker is a process fork from puma and therefore a very heavy...
Split your parallel tests by execution time and keep execution logs up to date
Both knapsack and parallel_tests have the option to split groups by historic execution time. The required logs for this might be outdated since you manual...
How to test print stylesheets with Cucumber and Capybara
A print stylesheet is easy to create. Choose a font suited for paper, hide some elements, done. Unfortunately print stylesheets often break as the application is developed further, because they are quickly forgotten and nobody bothers to check if ...
How to inspect RSS feeds with Spreewald, XPath, and Selenium
Spreewald gives you the <step> within <selector> meta step that will constrain page inspection to a given scope.
Unfortunately, this does not work with RSS feeds, as they're XML documents and not valid w...
AngularJS: How to force Content-Type on GET and DELETE requests
While you usually do not need a Content-Type on GET request (which have a blank body), an external API may still force you to send one.
Angular's $http service will [strip that header](https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/7c0731edb2f72bd...
Waiting for page loads and AJAX requests to finish with Capybara
If you're using the Capybara webdriver, steps sometimes fail because the browser hasn't finished loading the next page yet, or it still has a pending AJAX request. You'll often see workarounds like
When I wait for the page to load
Then .....
Capybara: Testing file downloads
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...