When you develop a gem and you have a Gemfile in your project directory, you might be surprised that your gem dependencies aren't already required in your specs. Here is some info that should help you out:

• Bundler actually doesn't automatical...

Simply add this to your .rspec instead:

--require spec_helper

If you are on rspec >= 3 and use a rails_helper.rb require this instead of the spec_helper:

--require rails_helper

If you are using parallel_tests and this i...

This only applies to RSpec below version 1.3.2. The issue has been fixed in RSpec 1.3.2, and most likely RSpec 2 and later versions.

When you have a helper that calls content_for and want to check its behavior you should probably...

Shared example groups are a useful RSpec feature. Unfortunately the default directory structure generated by rspec-rails has no obvious place to put the...

If you use rails_admin, your specs pass with the rspec binary, but not using rake spec (or rake parallel:spec etc), put this at the top of your spec_helper:

ENV['SKIP_RAILS_ADMIN_INITIALIZER'] = 'false'

Don't ask.

This is probab...

Jasmine is a great way to unit test your JavaScript components without writing an expensive end-to-end test for every small requirement.

After we [integrated Jasmine into a Rails app](https://makandracards.com/makand...

Background

Rails offers several methods to manage three types of different cookies along with a [session storage for cookies](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_controller_ove...

At makandra, we've built a few gems over the years. Some of these are quite popular: spreewald (> 1M downloads), active_type (> 1M downloads), and geordi (> 200k downloads)

Developing a Ruby gem is different from developing Rails applications, w...

Custom matchers are a useful RSpec feature which you can use to DRY up repetitive expectations in your specs. Unfortunately the default directory structure gene...