...hard to achieve), because it is no actual "integration testing". If you use this step, know what you are doing. Destroying a record with Capybara is not as easy as...
...user, method: :delete), because RackTest's visit can only perform GET requests. With this step you can destroy a records using either Selenium or RackTest. Example: When I destroy that...
Capybara will match elements outside of a page's tag. For example, the step definitions below match nodes in a page's : Then /^my browser should auto-discover the "([^"]*)" feed...
page.should have_css( 'head link' + '[rel="alternate"]' + "[href='http://www.example.com/#{slug}/feed.rss']" + '[title="RSS feed (all cards)"]' + '[type="application/rss+xml"]', visible: false ) end Then /^my browser should...
...default Ruby, RubyMine will give you incorrect inspections, for example.\ Here is how to switch which Ruby you use in RubyMine. File → Settings (Or press Ctrl+Alt+S)
...SDK and Gems" from the left pane Switch your "Ruby interpreter". Though it may seem you are changing a global setting here, this is in fact a per-project setting...
find . -cnewer other_file This can be used to check against a specific timestamp, too. This is how you check for all files modified today (since...
...the current bash's PID so you will get some file like /tmp/12345 that stays the same for the current shell. This allows you to check against this file again...
RSpec's let allows you to super into "outside" definitions, in parent contexts. Example: describe '#save' do subject { described_class.new(attributes) } let(:attributes) { title: 'Example', user: create(:user) } it 'saves' do...
...expect(subject.save).to eq(true) end context 'when trying to set a disallowed title' do let(:attributes) { super().merge(title: 'Hello') } # <== it 'will not save' do expect(subject.save).to eq...
...you want to manually check if e-mail delivery works on a machine by sending an e-mail you can run the following: mail -s Test someone@example.com < /dev/null
...send an empty e-mail with "Test" as its subject to someone@example.com. If you want it to contain a message body, call mail -s Test someone@example.com only; the mail application...
Note that we used $ and ^ to explicitly look at the end and start of the filenames...
To read the Rails session from a Rack middleware, use env['rack.session']. It's an ActionDispatch::Request::Session object. class MyMiddlware def initialize(app) @app = app end def call(env...
...status, headers, body = @app.call(env) session = env['rack.session'] Rails.logger.info("Value of session['foo'] is: " + session['foo'].inspect) [status, headers, body] end end You may not be able to write to...
...git pull won't know its remote version. You could use difficult commands to set up a branch's tracking but it's easier to...
...just push it like this: git push -u From the documentation on git push: -u, --set-upstream For every branch that is up to date or successfully pushed, add upstream...
A perfect implementation of the wrong specification is worthless. By the same principle a beautifully crafted library with no documentation is also damn near worthless. If your software solves the...
...wrong problem or nobody can figure out how to use it, there's something very bad going on. Fine. So how do we solve this problem? It's easier than...
Here's a pretty useful steps that hasn't made it into Spreewald yet. It is best used with the auto-mapper for BEM classes in features/support/selectors.rb
...above [selector] element When /^I hover above (.*) element$/ do |selector| page.find(selector_for(selector)).hover end Example: When I hover above the album's image element → triggers a hover event...
...disable hiding URL parameters, open up Tools → Preferences (Ctrl+F12) → Advanced → Browsing and check "Show full web address in address field". No need to touch opera:config. The badge that...
...displays the page's "zone" (Web, Secure, Opera, ...) will be shrinked so you can still see a yellow lock for proper SSL connections, etc...
I was annoyed that RubyMine's autocompletion did not work via Ctrl+Space for me. In fact, it did not work in any application. Turns out that keyboard combination was...
...hijacked by Ubuntu as it's the default for switching input languages (i.e. keyboard layouts). If you use only 1 language/layout, you will not notice except for the key not...
In the DevTools settings, there's a "Shortcuts" section. Found these keyboard shortcuts there: General ESC Toggle drawer CTRL + ~ or CTRL + ` Show console in drawer Styles SHIFT + up/down
...debugging page repaint times) CTRL + hover above element in the DOM list Don't show the yellow dimensions tooltip (useful when the tooltip covers just the area you need to...
You must reconfigure the guest so it will get its own IP address: Shutdown the guest In the guest's VirtualBox settings, choose Network and switch the network adapter type...
...Unix) or ipconfig (Windows) You can now connect to this IP address using HTTP, SSH, etc. Note that by doing this your VirtualBox guest is fully exposed on the local...
...not play nice with gnome-open. You can fix the problem by uninstalling it: sudo apt-get remove exo-utils Note that this may also uninstall XFCE tools like xfce4...
To reduce download time, application servers usually serve content using gzip compression, if the browser supports it. When using a tool like Wget to explicitly download an application's response...
...the server responds with the uncompressed version: wget http://example.com/ If you are curious about the compressed file's size, pass the corresponding HTTP header: wget --header="accept-encoding: gzip...
Deadlocks only occur if two transactions in separate threads compete for the same rows in the database. They usually (but not necessarily) only happen when trying to update or otherwise...
...lock several rows in different order. Solving deadlocks is potentially complicated, so here are a few pointers: MySQL should always detect the deadlock right when it happens, and will throw...
By default, Twitter Bootstrap's print styles include printing links. /* Bootstrap's way of printing URLs */ @media print { a[href]:after { content: " (" attr(href) ")"; } } If you want to turn that...
Current webkit browsers like Chrome and Safari have a special variable in their consoles that refers to the selected DOM node in the elements panel. This lets us easily inspect...
...Angular scopes. Right click in the page and click "Inspect" to open the Dev Tools Select the element you're interested in from the elements panel Focus the console (in...
You can use scheme-less URLs (or protocol-relative URLs) to have browsers use the current protocol (HTTP or HTTPS) when loading content referenced with such an URL.
...relative URL doesn’t contain a protocol. For example, http://stevesouders.com/images/book-84x110.jpg becomes //stevesouders.com/images/book-84x110.jpg Browsers substitute the protocol of the page itself for the resource’s missing protocol. Problem solved...
Sometimes you want to see what data you get through a TCP or UDP connection. For example, you want to know how a HTTP Request look like.
...easy with netcat. Example to listen on port 80 and the output gets to stdout. sudo nc -kl 80 It's also possible write it into a file:
When dealing with external data sources, you may have to deal with improperly encoded strings. While you should prefer deciding on a single encoding with the data-providing party, you...
...can not always force that on external sources. It gets worse when you receive data with encoding declaration that does not reliably fit the accompanying string bytes.
...will never return the current element itself, even if the element matches the given selector. Require the attached file and you can now say: $('.container').findWithSelf('.selector')