Geordi 9.6.0 released: new "did you know?" feature
Geordi will now suggest related commands and options (hand-picked). If a command has suggestions, a single suggestion is printed with a 10% probability after a successful command.
Related cards:
Using feature flags to stabilize flaky E2E tests
A flaky test is a test that is often green, but sometimes red. It may only fail on some PCs, or only when the entire test suite is run.
There are many causes for flaky...
Fixing flaky E2E tests
An end-to-end test (E2E test) is a script that remote-controls a web browser with tools like Selenium WebDriver. This card shows basic techniques for fixing a flaky E2E test suite that sometimes passes and sometimes fails.
Although many examples ...
Things you probably didn’t know you could do with Chrome’s Developer Console
Collection of useful tools in the Chrome JavaScript console.
Make the whole page editable
This is not special to Chrome, but still a clever thing:
document.body.contentEditable=true
Taking time
You can easily measure the ti...
Geordi 10.0.0 released
10.0.0 2024-03-07
Compatible changes
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consolecommand: You can now globally disable the IRB multiline feature by settingirb_flags: --nomultilinein~/.config/geordi/global.yml. All configured irb_flags are automatically passed on ...
Using before(:context) / before(:all) in RSpec will cause you lots of trouble unless you know what you are doing
TL;DR Avoid before(:context) (formerly before(:all)), use before(:example) (formerly before(:each)) instead.
If you do use before(:context), you need to know what you are doing and take care of any cleanup yourself.
Why?
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Recent RSpec features you might not know about
With its you can switch the subject of an example to a method value of the current subject:
describe Array do
its(:length) { should == 0 }
end
stub_chain is the tie to go along with [should_receive_chain](https://makandracards....
A few git tips you didn't know about
Random list of useful git commands for advanced users. I found some of them useful.
Did you know 'tig status' ?
It's like a GUI for the famous git add [-p].
Select files with the up/down-keys and hit
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ufor staging/unstaging the whole file -
Enterfor showing the diff of a file-
jandkto navigate in the diff -
uagain to stage/unstage...
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Defining new elements for your HTML document
Browsers come with a set of built-in elements like <p> or <input>. When we need a new component not covered by that, we often build it from <div> and <span> tags. An alternative is to introduce a new element, like <my-element>.
When a b...
How to install a frozen version of Firefox for your Selenium tests
Whenever Firefox updates, all your Cucumber features that use Selenium break. This is annoying.
In order to remedy this, version 0.5.0 of our geordi gem comes with a script that helps you create an unchanging ...