See screenshot here. This is great news because network throttling is very painful in Linux. The features are already in...

Aruba is an extension to Cucumber that helps integration-testing command line tools. When your tests involve a Rails test...

When you cannot make Selenium trigger events you rely on (e.g. a "change" event when filling in a form field...

blog.salsify.com

An all-in-approach to fix the problem of pending AJAX requests dying in the browser when the server ends...

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You need this awkward command: page.driver.browser.action.move_to(page.find(selector).native).perform Note that there are better ways for newer Capybaras...

chriszetter.com

"Keyword arguments" allow naming method arguments (optionally setting a default value). By using the double-splat operator, you can collect...

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github.com

Now supports Rails 4.1 and Ruby 2.1.

github.com

Using this gem, whenever a Capybara test in Cucumber, Rspec or Minitest fails, the HTML for the failed page and...

For me guard recently took a very long to start (as in "minutes"), because I had lots of images in...

As you know, assignable_values does not invalidate a record even when an attribute value becomes unassignable. See this example...

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assignable_values now supports Rails 4.1 and Ruby 2.1.0.

Travis CI is a free continuous integration testing service. However, it is really fragile and will break more than it...

When you tell rbenv to install a Ruby it does not know about, you will get an error message.

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github.com

EdgeRider 0.3.0 adds support for Rails 4.1 and Ruby 2.1. It forward-ports ActiveRecord::Base.scoped to Rails 4.1.

RSpec 3.0 deprecates the :should way of writing specs for expecting things to happen. However, if you have tests you...

When you have a string containing umlauts which don't behave as expected (are not matched with a regexp, can...

Sometimes you're getting an ActiveSupport deprecation warning that you cannot or don't want to fix. In these cases...

Warnings like those below may originate from rspec or shoulda-matchers or other gems that have not updated yet to...

ActiveRecord caches results of SQL queries. If you want to discard the cached results for one model, you can call...

SimpleForm is a great approach to simplifying your forms, and it comes with lots of well-defined input types. However...

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mupdf.com

MuPDF is a PDF reader that renders very quickly, yet still correctly. It supports PDF 1.7 and all the fancy...

toptal.com

This is a great tutorials for beginners and intermediate AngularJS developers. It covers a lot of ground, including routing and...

When your Rails controller action responds with only a simple text, render text: 'Hello' may not be what you want...

Since version 34, Chromium/Chrome ignores the autocomplete="off" attribute on forms or input fields. Recent versions of other browser do...