Postman provides a graphical way to build and send HTTP requests, with collections, environments, history, and a cookie manager for API testing.

rspec_candy packages reusable RSpec helpers as a gem, making setup and updates easier for specs that need shared test utilities.

Global Rails settings can live in YAML files with environment-specific overrides via config_for, avoiding constant collisions and supporting fetch or bang accessors.

Template-based examples reduce repetition in behavior-driven tests and make repetitive cases easier to maintain.

Fixes for flaky browser tests in Spreewald 0.9.4, including a resolved “I click on ...” step and broader Selenium retry handling.

Custom RSpec matchers can stay local to one example group or selected groups, avoiding global helper pollution while reusing expectation logic.

A too-large class is harder to understand, test, and change. Several refactoring approaches break it into smaller responsibilities.

Send deployment notifications from Capistrano to Slack channels using slackistrano and incoming webhooks, with customizable message formatting.

Synthetic user events for typing, clicking, moving, and dragging provide realistic interaction handling for tests and automation.

document.activeElement returns the currently focused DOM element and is useful for checking focus state in JavaScript or Selenium tests.

Capybara matchers can be applied to standalone HTML fragments or strings, not only full pages, making fragment assertions easier in test suites.

Secure cookies are often required by audits even when a Rails app already uses HTTPS and HSTS. A middleware can add the Secure flag to server-set cookies automatically.

Simple Git configuration for new developers: aliases, merge and rebase defaults, better diffs, and GitLab push shortcuts.

When you roll custom URLs with hacks like routing-filter, you can put a spec like this into spec/routing/routing_spec.rb:

SAML logout can be initiated by the service provider or identity provider, with browser redirects or backchannel POSTs; devise_saml_authenticatable needs specific Rails and Keycloak logout handling.

Automated security testing integrated into a BDD workflow reduces gaps between development and security review for teams shipping software continuously.

decided to go fixtureless with Shoulda + Factory Girl. All good, except one problem. Slow as fuck tests. So here’s fast_context as a solution for it. fast_context compiles all the ‘should’s within a context into a single test.

Project code is reviewed before staging to catch client rejections early and keep changes maintainable. Gatekeepers approve or reject merge requests and decide whether a review is needed.

Benchmarking Active Record queries needs repeated runs and cache clearing to measure realistic PostgreSQL performance; a Ruby script can report percentile timings.

View specs can stay fast and readable by querying rendered HTML with Capybara finders and matchers instead of relying on heavier request or feature specs.

Compose a custom RSpec matcher from existing matchers to reduce repeated expectations and keep failure messages informative.

The idea is this: you take a job that you'd rather not do manually, and describe it to babushka using its DSL. The way it works, babushka not only knows how to accomplish each part of the job, it also knows how to check if each part is already done. You're teaching babushka to achieve an end goal with whatever runtime conditions you throw at it, not just to perform the task that would get you there from the very start.

Git pushes can trigger unwanted CI jobs on GitLab, GitHub Actions, or Travis CI. Skip runs with commit-message flags or GitLab push options.