Test the status code of a response in Cucumber

The step definitions below allow you to write this in both Webrat and Capybara:

When I follow "Download as PDF"
Then I should get a response with content-type "application/pdf"

Capybara

Then /^I should get a response with...

When you need to see the content of a page (i.e. not all the HTML but the relevant text body)

• you can do pp (html_content)
  • pp will format the html String human readable pretty printed
• where html_content can be replaced by one of the fo...

The ActionDispatch module of Rails gives you the helper method flash to access the flash messages in a response.

describe PostsController, type: :request do

  descr...

Imagine you have a piece of code that tries to send a request to a remote server. Now the server is temporarily not available and raises an exception. In order to re-send the request you could use the following snippet:

def remote_request

...

The step definition below allows you to write:

Then I should see a link labeled "Foo"
But I should not see a link labeled "Bar"

Webrat

Then /^I should( not)? see a link labeled "([^"]*)"$/ do |negate, label|
  expectatio...

When ending a Selenium test Capybara resets the browser state by closing the tab, clearing cookies, localStorage, etc.

It may be a good idea to wait for all in-flight AJAX requests to finish before ending a scenario:

• You may have client-side...

When you do a bitwise copy using the dd tool you will not see any output until it completes or an error occurs.
However, you can send a command signal to the process to have it show its progress so far.

From another terminal, simply call (be ro...

The following will search for all .feature files containing a search term and run them using geordi.

find features/ -name '*.feature' | xargs grep -li 'YOUR SEARCH TERM' | sort -u | tr '\n' ' ' | xargs ...

Tooltips that are delivered through HTML attributes are encoded. Decode entities before checking for their presence.

Capybara:

Then /^there should( not)? be a(n encoded)? tooltip "([^"]*)"$/ do |negate, encoded, tooltip|
  tooltip = HTML...

Simplecov is a code coverage tool. This helps you to find out which parts of your application are not tested.

Integrating this in a rails project with rspec, cucumber and parallel_tests is easy.

1. Add i...