Geordi 9.6.0 released: new "did you know?" feature

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...

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 ...

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...

10.0.0 2024-03-07

Compatible changes

• console command: You can now globally disable the IRB multiline feature by setting irb_flags: --nomultiline in ~/.config/geordi/global.yml. All configured irb_flags are automatically passed on ...

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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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....

Random list of useful git commands for advanced users. I found some of them useful.

It's like a GUI for the famous git add [-p].

Select files with the up/down-keys and hit

• u for staging/unstaging the whole file
• Enter for showing the diff of a file
  • j and k to navigate in the diff
  • u again to stage/unstage...

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...

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 ...