xargs is a powerful bash tool that can take input from $STDIN and pass it to a given command. I.e. you can do the following:

$> cat tmp/parallel_cucumber_failures.log
features/authentication.feature:33
features/backend/pages.feature:5
features/backend/pages.feature:60

$> cat tmp/parallel_cucumber_failures.log | xargs geordi cucumber
# Running features
> Only: features/authentication.feature:33 features/backend/pages.feature:5 features/backend/pages.feature:60
...

Beside the linked article you might also be interested in reading ...

If your external displays not switching on or showing a weird behavior (for e.g. all displays getting the same configuration all the time) you can fix it by switching off all external displays and re-enabling only one in the first step. Afterwards you can apply your whole configuration via xrandr. This behavior could be a bug in the kernel and may be fixed in linux 4.8.

Example display configuration

Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 5760 x 1200, maximum 32767 x 32767
eDP1 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis...

There is no CSS selector for matching elements that contains a given string ¹. Luckily, Capybara offers the :text option to go along with your selector:

page.find('div', text: 'Expected content')

You can also pass a regular expression!

page.find('div', text: /Expected contents?/i)

Note that if your CSS selector is as generic as div, you might get a lot more results than you expect. E.g. a <div class="container"> that surrounds your entire layout will probably also contain that text (in a descendant) and ...

Yesterday I stumbled across a talk in which the guy mentioned module sub-classing. I was curious what you can do with it and found his blog post with a cool example. It allows you to inject some state into the module you are including elsewhere. Check it out!

class AttributeAccessor < Module
  def initialize(name)
    @name = name
  end

  def included(model)
    super
    define_accessors
  end

  private

  def define_accessors
    ivar = "@#{@name}"
    define_writer(ivar)
    define_reader(ivar)
  end

  def define_writer(ivar)
    ...

When working with custom transactions and use ActiveRecord::Rollback you may encounter unexpected behaviour if you try to roll back your changes.

tl;dr

When using nested transactions, ActiveRecord::Rollback might not do what you expect, since it will only roll back the inner, but not the outer transaction.

You can fix this behavior by using transaction(joinable: false) but this leads to a bunch of different problems.

When you don't need an explicit ActiveRecord::Rollback, don't worry about any of this and just use a plan `tran...

SVG is an acronym for "scalable vector graphics". SVGs should be used whenever an image can be described with vector instructions like "draw a line there" or "fill that space" (they're not suited for photographs and the like). Benefits are the MUCH smaller file size and the crisp and sharp rendering at any scale.

It's a simple, old concept brought to the web – half-heartedly. While actually all browsers pretend to support SVG, some barely complex use cases get you beyond common browser support.

In the bas...

We have released a new library Gemika to help test a gem against multiple versions of Ruby, gem dependencies and database types.

Here's what Gemika can give your test's development setup (all features are opt-in):

• Test one codebase against multiple sets of gem dependency sets (e.g. Rails 4.2, Rails 5.0).
• Test one codebase against multiple Ruby versions (e.g. Ruby 2.1.8, Ruby 2.3.1).
• Test one codebase against multiple database types (currently MySQL or PostgreSQL).
• Compute a matrix of all possib...

Same requests are recorded only once in vcr. Replaying a test fails, if you trigger the same request multiple times. The error message is somehow confusing, as your cassette contains the request:

An HTTP request has been made that VCR does not know how to handle

If you want to allow to match a request multiple times, you need to configure this explicit with allow_playback_repeats: true. Some exa...

Similar to our snippet that runs all Cucumber features matching a given string, the following will run all modified or new Cucumber features by looking at your git status:

git status --short | grep -v '^ D ' | grep '.feature' | sed 's/.. //' | tr '\n' ' ' | xargs geordi cucumber

If you want to know what each of the above commands does, see [explainshell](http://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=git+status+--short+%7C+grep+-v+%27%5E+D+%27+%7C+grep+%27.feature%27+%7C+sed+%27s%2F..+%2F%2F%27+%7C+tr+%27%5Cn%27+%27+%27+%7C...

• Improve geordi cucumber: Only attempt @solo run when the specified files contain the @solo tag, skip @solo run if any filename is passed with a line number (e.g. features/example.feature:3)
• Improve geordi deploy: Find stages by their prefix (e.g. s -> staging, m -> makandra), bundle if needed, check the selected stage exists
• Improve geordi server: Takes port as argument (e.g. geordi ser 3001), option --public (-P) starts the server with -b 0.0.0.0 to make it accessible from other machines in the local network, e.g. ...

Capistrano is by default configured to exclude the gems of the groups development and test when deploying to the stages production and staging. Whenever you create custom groups in your Gemfile, make sure to exclude these, if they should not be deployed to the servers. The gems of these groups might not be loaded by rails, however, the deployment process will take longer as the gems will be downloaded and installed to the server.

e.g. to exclude the groups cucumber and deploy, add the following to `config/deploy/production.rb...

Isolate scopes offer three kinds of variable binding. One of them is &, allowing to bind a property of the isolate scope to a function in the parent scope. Example:

# HTML
<panel proxy="parent.someFunction(arg1, arg2)"></div>

# Coffeescript
@app.directive 'panel', ->
  scope:
    parentFn: '&proxy'
  link: (scope) ->
    scope.parentFn(arg1: 'first', arg2: 'second')

In this dumb example, the panel directive will call its scope's parentFn() function with two arguments, which proxies to parent.someFunction('first', 'second')...

If you need to modify (e.g. add 2px) a Sass variable that defines multiple values as one (e.g. for short-hand CSS definitions such ass padding), you can by using nth. It's ugly.

While you could split up such variables into multiple values (e.g. combined padding into one for vertical and one for horizontal padding) in your own Sass definitions, when using some framework definitions like bootstrap-sass, those variables are defined outside your reach.

The following is helpful if you really want to use values from such variables. However...

Ruby 2.3.0 has been around since end of 2015. It brings some pretty nice new features! Make sure to read the linked post with its many examples!

Hash#fetch_values

Similar to Hash#fetch, but for multiple values. Raises KeyError when a key is missing.

attrs = User.last.attributes
attrs.fetch_values :name, :email

Hash#to_proc

Turns a Hash into a Proc that returns the corresponding value when called with a key. May be useful with enumerators like #map:

attrs.to_proc.call(:name)
attrs.keys.grep(/name/).map &attrs...

Processes in Linux might be put into Swap ("virtual memory") occasionally.
Even parts of a single process might be removed from memory and put into Swap.

In order to find out which processes remain within Swap, run this:

sudo grep VmSwap /proc/*/status | egrep -v "0 kB"

Keep in mind Swap is not evil by definition. Some bytes per process beeing put to Swap will not have that much of performance influence.

If you want the Linux virtual memory manager (which is responsible for the decision if and which processes are moved to Swap) to be...

The following will search for all .feature files containing a search term and run them using geordi.

find features/ -name '*.feature' | xargs grep -li 'YOUR SEARCH TERM' | sort -u | tr '\n' ' ' | xargs geordi cucumber

If you do not use Geordi, xargs cucumber or similar might work for you.

For details about each command, see [explainshell.com](http://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=find+features%2F+-name+%27*.feature%27+%7C+xargs+grep+-li+%27YOUR+SEARCH+TERM%27+%7C+sort+-u+%7C+tr+%27%5Cn%27+%2...

Let's say you have two factories that share some attributes and traits:

FactoryBot.define do

  factory :user do
    screen_name 'john'
    email 'foo@bar.de'
    trait :with_profile do
      age 18
      description 'lorem ipsum'
    end
  end
  
  factory :client do
    full_name 'John Doe'
    email 'foo@bar.de'
    trait :with_profile do
      age 18
      description 'lorem ipsum'
    end
  end
  
end

You can re-use the shared fields by defining a trait outside the other factory definitions:

FactoryBot.define do

...

At least Selenium cannot find disabled fields. Unless you find them explicitly:

find_field 'This is disabled', disabled: true

Spreewald gives you the <step> within <selector> meta step that will constrain page inspection to a given scope.

Unfortunately, this does not work with RSS feeds, as they're XML documents and not valid when viewed from Capybara's internal browser (e.g. a <link> tag cannot have content in HTML).

Inspecting XML

If you're inspecting XML that is invalid in HTML, you need to inspect the page source instead of the DOM. You may use Spreewald's "... in the HTML" meta step, or add this proxy step fo...

fake_stripe spins up a local server that acts like Stripe’s and also serves a fake version of Stripe.js, Stripe’s JavaScript library that allows you to collect your customers’ payment information without ever having it touch your servers. It spins up when you run your feature specs, so that you can test your purchase flow without hitting Stripe’s servers or making any external HTTP requests.

We've also had tests actually hitting the testing sandbox of Stripe, which worked OK most of the time (can be flakey).

When you run rake db:rollback and nothing happens, you are probably missing the latest migration file (or have not migrated yet).

$ rake db:rollback
$ 

If that happens to you, check your migration status.

$ rake db:migrate:status
   up     20160503143434  Create users
   up     20160506134137  Create pages
   up     20160517112656  Migrate pages to page versions
   up     20160518112023  ********** NO FILE **********

When you tell Rails to roll back, it tries to roll back the latest change that was mi...

When building a form with a file select field, you may want to offer your users a live preview before they upload the file to the server.

HTML5 via jQuery

Luckily, HTML5 has simple support for this. Just create an object URL and set it on an <img> tag's src attribute:

$('img').attr('src', URL.createObjectURL(this.files[0]))

Unpoly Compiler

As an Unpoly compiler, it looks like this:

up.compiler '[image_p...

Cucumber's docstrings let you add long strings to a step like this:

# foo.feature
Given this text:
"""
First line
Second line

Second Paragraph
"""

# foo_steps.rb
Given /^this text:$/ |docstring|
  puts docstring.split
end

You see these neat triple double quotes ("""). Now what to do when you need your docstring to contain triple double quotes, too?

# Does not work:
Given this text:
"""
Docstrings work like this:
  """
  Docstring example
  """
You see?
"""

Update: Official solution

You can escape the inner quotes ...

Awesome is a very good tiling window manager that provides neat features like automatic layouting of windows, good multi-display support with per display workspaces and more. Since it is only a window manager, you will probably miss some of MATE's conveniences like the network manager, application menus, automatic updates etc.

Fortunately, you can run Awesome within MATE, by following these steps (tested on Ubuntu MATE 16.04):

Awesome + MATE

• Create the followi...