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The linked site hosts a simple test. It shows two images with narrow vertical/horizontal lines. The more they resemble each...
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As your Rails project grows, you will accumulate a number of small patches. These will usually fix a bug in...
to create a Gallery that has a name and has_many :images, which in turn have a...
UI sortable helps reordering items with drag 'n drop. It works quite fine. Proven configuration for sorting table rows
TL;DR If you want to support most browsers, then don't exceed 50 cookies per domain, and don't...
Spreewald gives you the within meta step that will constrain page inspection to a given scope. Unfortunately, this does not...
When you find yourself in the situation that you would like to define a custom matcher in your specs, but...
To delay your entire Jasmine test suite until the DOM is ready, add the following: beforeAll(function(done) { $(done); });
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When you run rake db:rollback and nothing happens, you are probably missing the latest migration file (or have not...
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When dealing with time zones in Rails, there is one key fact to keep in mind: Rails has configurable time...
Expecting a primitive value as an argument to a method invocation is easy: expect(object).to receive(:foo).with('arg1...
Cucumber's docstrings let you add long strings to a step like this: # foo.feature Given this text: """ First line
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You can use JavaScript to get or set cookie values on the client. Using the vanilla JavaScript API
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