Weighttp is threaded and might exhaust resources of an application better than ApacheBench or httperf. You need libev installed.
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We proudly release our safe_cookies middleware into public beta and just published it on Github. Features are:
Motion is quickly becoming one of the most important emerging techniques in building a quality user experience on the web...
One of many useful techniques when your test suite needs to talk to a remote API.
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Ubuntu has a package mysql-sandbox that lets you install multiple MySQL versions into your user home: Install mysql-sandbox...
When you build a link for an email body like this body = "Please click the following link" body << "http://posts/130...
Rails has always included a scaffold script that generates a default controller implementation for you. Unfortunately that generated controller is...
You're better off using debugger-ruby_core_source: gem install debugger-ruby_core_source If you can't do...
It is good programming practice to Don't Repeat Yourself (or DRY). In Ruby on Rails we keep our code...
Geordi 0.16+ supports running selenium tests with project-specific firefox versions. Just update the gem. It will still default to...
Establishing a new SSH connection usually takes only a few seconds, but if you’re connecting to a server multiple...
If you need to test interaction with a remote API, check out the VCR gem as an alternative to Webmock...
So you client has asked you to implement a row of buttons to like the URL on Facebook, Twitter and...
You might not know that Rails disables CSRF protection in tests. This means that if you accidentally forget to send...
Copy the attached file to features/support. This gets you a convenience method: Capybara.javascript_test? Is true for Selenium, capybara-webkit...
Chrome extension that shows all info from your rails log (like parameters, response times, view rendering times, DB requests) inside...
If you want to have routes that are only available in tests (e.g. for testing obscure redirects), you can use...
A practical guide.