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Here is a short summary of Cucumber hooks in Ruby taken from https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-ruby. Note that the BeforeStep is...
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When loading a database dump created with pg_dump into your database, you might run into an error like
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Because colors improve readability so much. On Ubuntu 18.04 you can install it with sudo apt install grc