...get full SQL syntax highlighting in the editor of your choice and can easily test your SQL in the database console during development. https://robots.thoughtbot.com/announcing-scenic--versioned-database-views-for-rails Notes: PostgreSQL only
RSpec lets you define the arguments with which you expect a method to be invoked: subject.should_receive(:say).with('hello...
...For Spreewald >= 1.9.0 it is as described in Solution 1. When doing integration testing with cucumber and selenium you will often encounter problems with timing - For example if your test...
...runs faster than your application, html elements may not yet be visible when the test looks for them. That's why Spreewald (a collection of cucumber steps) has a concept...
Views are normally (for good reason) not rendered in controller specs. If you need it to happen, use:
...Unpoly you may also use up.util.parseUrl(), which implements the technique in this card with tests and all caveats fixed. Related topic: JavaScript: Working with Query Parameters Javascript: Read params from...
To test if you can connect to a host using password authentication and explicitly deny public key authentication: ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=password -o PubkeyAuthentication=no user@host This also works...
...Then console step from spreewald in combination with geordi vnc from geordi to debug tests within a real browser. Sometimes when you type in the browser it suddenly disappears. You...
Developing complex regular expressions quickly blows my mind. Here are some online regex editors that help you by highlighting matching...
Since we're using RSpec on most projects, I've transformed the test for it to a spec. See the attached link...
While you can set your own font in your terminal or other tools, it will not change the default "Monospace...
...the visibility: hidden rule is not checked at all. Selenium Selenium is an integration test framework that consists of different tools to test websites and web-applications with real browsers...
...method? Due to the fact that a real browser is used for your website tests, the browser itself is aware of all visible and hidden elements since it parses CSS...
...developed as a C extension, so it's fast. And it has a full test suite so it's reliable. Note that byebug works only for ruby 2.0.0 or newer...
Rails 7.1 added a new method Rails.env.local?. If you want to stub the Rails env correctly, use ActiveSupport::EnvironmentInquirer like...
In order to reach the baseline for good code, make your code: deterministic tested (automated) scaling with data Other people will be able to rely on your code, and...
Turns out, Cucumber::MultilineArgument::DataTable#diff! caches some stuff. Code of the following form will not work as intended:
...Behind the link, you'll find a simple HTML page that offers some cookie tests (how large, how many etc) and an overview of this data for various browsers.
Real-world example A real-world use case would be to test if the current page has a button with the label "Foo". There are many ways...
In ruby you can easily read and write CSVs with the standard CSV library class. On top of this, you...
...this to run a full setup. After basic setup (see geordi help setup), runs tests and loads a staging dump into the database. geordi security-update Guides through our security...
Enable local logging for Sentry when: Debugging Sentry event capture locally Testing error handling without polluting production metrics Developing background jobs and want to see what Sentry captures
I recently browsed through the ActiveSupport code and found some nice stuff I did not know about: ActiveSupport::Callbacks
...something I get asked about often enough by developers, and while we can do tests with DevTools, I have both the time and inclination to shortcut that for everyone. I...
...discovered new tools and techniques to separate and reuse logic, making code easier to test, understand, and maintain. Now that we’ve learned about all these new tools, when do...
If you expect method calls in RSpec 3, be aware that the argument matchers use very liberal equality rules (more...