Test e-mail dispatch in Cucumber

You can use mail-tester.com to check your application's e-mails for issues that might cause e-mails to be classified as spam.

They provide a one-time e-mail addresses that you can use to sign up etc. You can then c...

I love Cucumber, but I hate writing step definitions. They are ugly, awkward to write and very, very boring: Most step defintions merely create objects for a scenario to chew on.

Cucumber has an output format that prints step definitions only. You can use this to find unused ones:

1. Temporarily add require_relative 'env' to the top of the first file in features/support. --dry-run makes Cucumber skip loading env.rb....

Both these approaches will keep your GET parameters -- and will only work for GET requests.

• Capybara:

  When /^I reload the page$/ do
    visit [ current_path, page.driver.request.env['QUERY_STRING'] ].reject(&:blank?).join('?')
  

  ...

When refactoring a sequence of steps to a new, more descriptive step, you can use the steps method and Ruby's %-notation like this:

Given 'I have an article i...

popthis is awesome when used with inaction_mailer.

Setup inaction_mailer

Install the gem:
sudo...

This might eventually be fixed by Rails itself.\
Right now this is the way to have the rails_xss plugin not escape the body of ActionMailer mails.

Put this into config/initializers/mailers_without_rails_xss.rb:

If you want to manually check if e-mail delivery works on a machine by sending an e-mail you can run the following:
mail -s Test someone@example.com < /dev/null

This will send an empty e-mail with "Test" as its subject to `someone@example.com...

Issue

When you have a Cucumber step like

Then I should see "Did you see those \"quotation marks\" over there?"

you'll run into trouble. Cucumber won't take your escaped quotation marks.

Workarounds

One workaround is to write the ...

Percent Notation

We already know that that we can create strings using the percent notation:

%(<foo="bar's ton">) is perfectly fine Ruby.

Modifier

Bu...