The linked slidedeck holds many tips, of which I list the most interesting to me below DATA and END
The __END__ keyword tells Ruby where a file ends – but you don't have to stop there. Any text you...
Geordi now supports our solution for running Selenium tests without having Firefox or Chrome windows popping up all over your...
Example task: Multiply the table holidays between several stages. Open two terminals: shell-for stage_1 shell-for stage_2...
If some of your JavaScripts fail on Internet Explorer, but only in staging or production environments, chances are that JavaScript...
This didn't work for me. Seems display is already taken in Machinist. # in spec/support/blueprints.rb Partner.blueprint do company_name
You're using exception_notification and want to send exception mails within a model. Here's how. The ExceptionNotifier class...
This describes how to migrate an existing cucumber test suite to Spreewald. Add the gem Include spreewald into your cucumber...
TL;DR Avoid before(:context) (formerly before(:all)), use before(:example) (formerly before(:each)) instead. If you do use before...
Today I got a better understanding of how git works, in particular what git checkout and git reset do.
Ever wanted autocompletion for paths from paths.rb in Cucumber? This card lets you write your steps like this:
Trick: Do not use convert but mogrify: mogrify -resize 50% * This overwrites the original image file. In contrast, convert writes...
Note: Modern Rails has two build pipelines, the asset pipeline (or "Sprockets") and Webpacker. The principles below apply for both...
The step definition below allows you to write: Then I should see an HTML redirect to "http://www.makandracards.com" in the...
Keychain helps you to manage ssh and GPG keys in a convenient and secure manner. It acts as a frontend...
If you have an html_safe string, you won't be able to call gsub with a block and match...
In a nutshell: return statements inside blocks cause a method's return value to change. This is by design (and...
A print stylesheet is easy to create. Choose a font suited for paper, hide some elements, done. Unfortunately print stylesheets...
This works in modern RSpecs (RSpec >= 2.x) and Cucumbers: rspec spec/models/node_spec.rb:294:322 cucumber features/nodes.feature:543:563:579
Every now and then, Java is subject to security issues where code can break out of Java's sandbox and...
Sometimes you need to look at the filter chain in specs. You can do it like that on Rails 2...
Never name your shared example group *_spec.rb. Otherwise rspec will try to load your example group as a spec and...
Internet Explorer until version 9 has some limitations when parsing CSS files Summarized, these are: Up to 31 CSS files...
In Selenium features the server and client are running in separate processes. Therefore, when mocking time with a tool like...