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These steps are now part of Spreewald. This note describes a Cucumber step that lets you write this:
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A popular ruby idiom I keep stumbling upon is def do_some_thing_for(values) values = Array(values)
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So this is the simulation that I use in my Agile Testing class, as well as in other contexts where...
RSpec's context (which is basically an alias for describe) takes over your whole application. No object may have its...
You can use record.send(:update_without_callbacks) or record.send(:create_without_callbacks) This can be used as a...
You don't need a Rails application to use Sass. Even when you're working on a static site you...
With its you can switch the subject of an example to a method value of the current subject: describe Array...
This will not work (it always passes): Then the "Title" field should contain "" The value is turned into a regular...
For some reason you want to define a find condition in array form. And in that condition both column name...
Find conditions for scopes can be given either as an array (:conditions => ['state = ?', 'draft']) or a hash (:conditions => { 'state' => 'draft...
When using virtual attributes, the attached trait can be useful to automatically copy errors from one attribute to another.
power-rake db:migrate VERSION=20100913132321 By default the environments development, test, cucumber and performance are considered...
To only run a single describe/context block in a long spec, you can say spec spec/models/note_spec.rb:545 ... where the describe...
When Paperclip attachments should only be downloadable for selected users, there are three ways to go. The same applies to...
If you need to find all files inside a directory that were modified in the last 24 hours you can...
This will show you how to create a RSS feed that the Feed Validator considers valid. Note that RSS is...
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In modern Rails versions you can also use ActiveRecord's pluck method. User.active.pluck(:id) => [1, 5, 23, 42]
You should test the callback methods and its correct invocation in two separate tests. Understand the ActiveRecord note before you...
First of all: You could just use RVM which would make the pain go away. If for some reason you...
You can use the whatlanguage gem to detect the language of a Ruby string. Note that it also has not...