...with a nice way to grep through your project's files: The finder (ctrl + shift + f). Don't be discouraged about the notice 100+ matches in n+ files if your...
...searched keyword is too general or widely used in your project. RubyMine comes with a few ways to narrow down the resulting list, don't hesitate to apply those filters...
This card is a short summary on different ways of assigning multiple attributes to an instance of a class. Using positional parameters Using parameters is the default when assigning attributes...
...It works good for a small number of attributes, but becomes more difficult to read when using multiple attributes. Example: class User def initialize(salutation, first_name, last_name, street...
...pretty_print method As an example, consider the following class. class MyClass # ... def inspect "#<#{self.class} attr1: #{attr1.inspect}, attr2: #{attr2.inspect}>" end end Instances of that class will inspect like #<MyClass attr1...
...Alice", attr2: "Bob">, but IRB will apply a single color (green) for everything. That is because MyClass implements only inspect. If it were to implement pretty_print, IRB would use...
...notice that the records you create are not deleted and will bleed into your specs the next time you run them. You probably have DatabaseCleaner configured to take care of...
...not bloating your test database with old records: RSpec.configure do |config| config.before(:suite) do DatabaseCleaner.clean_with(:deletion) end config.before(:each) do DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction end config.before(:each, transaction: false) do DatabaseCleaner.strategy...
GoodJob and ActiveJob rescue exceptions internally, preventing exception_notification from triggering. This can cause silent job failures.To get notified, subscribe to ActiveJob events and configure GoodJob's on_thread_error...
...job failures, as they are handled internally by ActiveJob/GoodJob. ActiveSupport::Notifications.subscribe(/(enqueue_retry|retry_stopped|discard)\.active_job/) do |event_name, *, payload| exception = payload[:error] job = payload[:job]
Modern CSS offers the field-sizing property to allow elements to automatically adjust size (width and/or height) to fit their contents. The most common use case are textareas which start...
...fairly small (e.g. 2 or 3 rows tall) but grow when users enter longer text. Usage textarea { field-sizing: content; } That's it! At least in modern Chromium-based browsers...
...updates all your gems at once. Given that many gems don't care about stable APIs, this might break your application in a million ways. To stay sane, update your...
...This ensures that your libraries are up-to-date while it's easy to spot major version bumps which may break the app. Projects that have not been updated in...
This RailsCast demonstrated a very convenient method to activate VCR for a spec by simply tagging it with :vcr. For RSpec3 the code looks almost the same with a few...
...minor changes. If you have the vcr and webmock gems installed, simply include: # spec/support/vcr.rb VCR.configure do |c| c.cassette_library_dir = Rails.root.join("spec", "vcr") c.hook_into :webmock end RSpec.configure do |c...
...Mocking the time zone You can't really change the local time zone of the Selenium-controlled browser. What you can do is change the time zone of the process...
...setting this from an individual test, since you don't know whether or not the Selenium-controlled browser has already launched. Note that we have only tested this with a...
...bug) and want to use git bisect to find out when it was introduced? Smart kid. If you have a shell command ready to reveal if your current state is...
...other hand will use the return value of that call to decide if the state is good or bad. First, start bisecting git bisect start Then tell git which revisions...
...files. Those can be used to apply to a different repository [1] or by someone else (e.g. sent when sent to them via e-mail). Creating a patch in git...
...changes and commit them. Run git format-patch COMMIT_REFERENCE to convert all commits since the referenced commit (not including it) into patch files. For example, let's say you...
...the commit which was deployed. If you want to know the currently deployed release, simply SSH to a server and view that file. $ cat /var/www/my-project/current/REVISION cf8734ece3938fc67262ad5e0d4336f820689307 Capistrano task
...application is deployed to multiple servers, you probably want to see a result for all of them. Here is a Capistrano task that checks all servers with the :app role...
...been released just a few days ago, allowing us to use Webpack 4. I successfully upgraded an existing real-world Webpack 3 application. Below are notes on everything that I...
Note that we prefer not using the Rails asset pipeline at all and serving all assets through Webpack for the sake of consistency. Preparations Remove version locks in Gemfile...
I recently noticed a new kind of flaky tests on the slow free tier GitHub Action runners: Integration tests were running on smaller screen sizes than specified in the device...
...metrics. The root cause was the use of Selenium's page.driver.resize_window_to methods, which by design does not block until the resizing process has settled: We discussed this issue...
Capybara-screenshot can automatically save screenshots and the HTML for failed Capybara tests in Cucumber, RSpec or Minitest. Requires Capybara-Webkit, Selenium or poltergeist for making screenshots. Screenshots are saved...
...into $APPLICATION_ROOT/tmp/capybara. Manually saving a page Additionally you can trigger the same behavior manually from the test using Capybara::Session#save_and_open_page and Capybara::Session#save_screenshot...
Geordi provides a pretty neat way to generate beautiful commit messages according to your stories in Linear: geordi commit Geordi reads from a .geordi.yml file inside your repo and connects...
...to Linear to list started and finished stories with their title. Choosing one of them generates a commit message including id and title from Linear app and a link to...
You can do so much more than console.log(...)! See the attached link for a great breakdown of what the developer console can give you. Some of my favorites: console.log takes...
E.g. console.log("Current string:", string, "Current number:", 12) Your output can have hyperlinks to Javascript objects E.g. console.log("Check out the current %o, it's great", location)
...default it allows only accessing visible elements -- when you are using a driver that supports it (e.g. Selenium, not the default Rack::Test driver). Consider the following HTML: One
...true) or find(..., visible: :visible). Note that you could change the default behavior by setting the ignore_hidden_elements config option. However, ignoring invisible elements is a useful default.
Sometimes you need to remove high Unicode characters from a string, so all characters have a code point between 0 and 127. The remaining 7-bit-encoded characters ("Low-ASCII...
...can be transported in most strings where escaping is impossible or would be visually jarrring. Note Transliteration this will change the string. If you need to preserve the exact string...
...a global variable in Rails? Ugh, that's the worst. If you need global state, you've probably reached for Thread.current. When you're using Thread.current, you must make sure...
...yourself or your cached data will stay in Thread.current. For Sidekiq, you can use request_store-sidekiq. Cronjobs are unaffected, as a new process is created each time...
...want to be in there. In order to reduce the chance to accidentally commit something you didn't intend, review your changes before committing. My preferred way of doing this...
...paths (including new files), but not their contents git add -p Git will now show you all your changes in small chunks and ask you in an interactive mode whether...
When your Rails application server raises error, Capybara will fail your test when it clears the session after the last step. The effect is a test that passes all steps...
...behavior will help you to detect and fix errors in your application code. However, sometimes your application will explode with an error outside your control. Two examples: A JavaScript library...
CarrierWave comes with some RSpec matchers which will make testing more comfortable. Let's say you have an Uploader like this: class MyUploader < CarrierWave::Uploader::Base include CarrierWave::MiniMagick
...different versions of your uploaded files: version :small do process resize_to_fill: [100, 100] end version :medium do process resize_to_fit: [200, nil] end version :large do
...or ::1 (IPv6) can only be reached from your own PC: Netid State Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address:Port Peer Address:Port Process tcp LISTEN...
...address 0.0.0.0 can be reached from other PCs on your network: Netid State Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address:Port Peer Address:Port Process tcp LISTEN...