...center an icon (or any "blockish" inline element, really) with the capital letters of surrounding text. This works well with our modern approach to SVG icons, or e.g. for custom...
...list icons. Note that it won't work with "text" icons that scale with font-size. Technical background All text has a "baseline". It is the bottom edge of most...
Download buttons can be difficult to test, especially with Selenium. Depending on browser, user settings and response headers, one of three things can happen: The browser shows a "Save as...
...dialog. Since it is a modal dialog, we can no longer communicate with the browser through Selenium. The browser automatically downloads the file without prompting the user. For the test...
...much faster than the configured up.form.config.observeDelay. Therefore, it may happen that you already entered something into the next field before unpoly updates that field with a server response, discarding your...
The steps I wait for active ajax requests to complete (if configured) and capybara-lockstep can catch some of these cases, but not all. Both of these only wait...
...PATH << File.expand_path('../../lib', __FILE__) require 'my_cli' MyCli.run! However, if you create a symlink to this file, this will no longer work. __FILE__ will resolve to the path of...
...the symlink, not to its target. One solution is to use File.realpath(__FILE__). In Ruby 2+ you can also use this: $LOAD_PATH << File.expand_path('../lib', __dir__) __dir__ is simply...
By activating strict_loading you force developers to address n+1 queries by preloading all associations used in the index view. Using an association that is not preloaded will raise...
...an ActiveRecord::StrictLoadingViolationError. I think it's a good default to activate strict_loading in your controllers' #index actions. This way, when a change introduces an n+1 query, your...
...ZIP archive, you basically have two options: Write a ZIP file to disk and send it as a download to the user. Generate a ZIP archive on the fly while...
...streaming it in chunks to the user. This card is about option 2, and it is actually fairly easy to set up. We are using this to generate ZIP archives...
RubyMine has a collaboration feature called "Code With Me". Using it, you can invite someone into your local editor to work together. This is nicer to the eyes and much...
...more powerful than sharing code through some video chat. How to Getting started is really simple: Click the "add person" icon in the top-right editor corner (or hit Ctrl...
We use foreman to start all necessary processes for an application, which are declared in a Procfile. This is very convenient, but the outputs of all processes get merged together...
...Especially while debugging you might not want other processes to flood your screen with their log messages. The following setup allows you to start Terminator in a split view with...
...on a Rails record is converted to UTC using to_s(:db) to be stored, and converted back into the correct time zone when the record is loaded from the...
...This is now UTC Problem That will blow up in your face when you send times to attributes that expect dates, just because those times will also be converted using...
Ask the admins to turn on SSL (they will set an HSTS header for SSL-only sites) Make cookies secure and http_only Never hard-code the http protocol...
...into URLs that point to your application, which makes you vulnerable to SSL-stripping. When linking to internal resources, just use the path without protocol or URL When linking to...
...index do |person, index| person.award_trophy(index + 1) end Ruby's map with index Similarly, you may need an index when using other methods, like map, flat_map, detect (when...
...you need the index for detection), or similar. Here is an example for map: people.map.with_index do |person, index| person.at_rank(index + 1)
If you need a sample video with certain properties for a test you can create one using ffmpeg. You might want a very low bitrate file to speed up processing...
...ffmpeg -t 21 -s 10x10 -r 1 -f rawvideo -pix_fmt rgb24 -i /dev/zero sample_21_seconds.mp4 Option Explanation -t 21 set the length to 21s -s 10x10
When your site is on HTTPS and you are linking or redirecting to a HTTP site, the browser will not send a referrer. This means the target site will see...
Clients SHOULD NOT include a Referer header field in a (non-secure) HTTP request if the referring page was transferred with a secure protocol.
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 step as regex (since there is a step taking a regex): Then I should see /Did you see those "quotation...
geordi cucumber path/to/features -r2 Background and how to rerun manually Cucumber will save a file tmp/parallel_cucumber_failures.log containing the filenames and line number of the failed scenarios after a...
...full test run. Normally you can say cucumber -p rerun (rerun is a profile defined by default in config/cucumber.yml) to rerun all failed scenarios. Here are a few alternative ways...
...group using Ruby's def keyword or define_method method: describe "example" do def sum(a, b) a + b end it "has access to methods defined in its group" do...
...expect(sum(3, 4)).to be(7) end end The helper method is also available to groups nested within that group. The helper method is not available to parent or...
Occasionally you need to do something directly on the server -- like having all records recalculate something that cannot be done in a migration because it takes a long time.
...s say you do something like this: Project.all.each(&:recalculate_statistics!) Even though you may have been successful with this on your development machine or the staging server, keep in mind...
Line-height and vertical-align are simple CSS properties. So simple that most of us are convinced to fully understand how they work and how to use them. But it...
...less-known feature of CSS: inline formatting context. For example, line-height can be set as a length or a unitless value 1, but the default is normal. OK, but...
...binary file. This method might be telling the truth most of the time. But sometimes it doesn't, and that's what causes pain. The method is defined as follows...
...not guaranteed to be 100% accurate. It performs a "best guess" based # on a simple test of the first +File.blksize+ characters. # # Example: # # File.binary?('somefile.exe') # => true # File.binary?('somefile.txt') # => false #--
expect(page).to have_field('Username') { |field| field[:class].blank? } Limitations Using execute_script, evaluate_script or evaluate_async_script within a filter block will crash with a timeout...
...Selenium::WebDriver::Error::ScriptTimeoutError Exception: script timeout This is due to Capybara using a zero timeout while calling the filter block. A workaround is to temporarily set a different timeout...
...moving a file, your imports also need to change. To get around this, esbuild support a mechanism first introduced in TypeScript called "path aliases". It works like this:
...if you do use TypeScript): { "compilerOptions": { "baseUrl": "./app/assets", "paths": { "@/*": ["js/*"], "@images/*": ["images/*"], "@css/*": ["css/*"], "@spec/*": ["../../spec/js/*"] } }, "include": [] } (The include: [] only makes sense if you do not use Typescript. If you...
The attached patch lets you find a record by a string or number in any column: User.find_by_anything('carla') User.find_by_anything('email@domain.de') User.find_by_anything(10023)
User.find_by_anything!('carla') Boolean and binary columns are excluded from the search because that would be crazy. I recommend copying the attachment to features/support/find_by_anything.rb, since it is...
}) Example case I had an Unpoly compiler for a tab navigation, which sets an -active class per default to the first tab link and removes it from all...
...other tab links. If another tab link is clicked, the -active class switches to the clicked link. In a Jasmine spec I wanted to test this behaviour. Unpoly's up.hello...
...any of the gems that GEM depends on. For the example above you would say: bundle update cucumber-rails --conservative If Bundler complains of a single dependency that it cannot...
...resolve this way, simply add it to the command: bundle update cucumber-rails capybara --conservative Options for old versions of bundler The options below might be relevant if you're...