• "I click on ..." step fixed
• Errors added to ToleranceForSeleniumSyncIssues::RETRY_ERRORS
  • Capybara::ElementNotFound
  • Selenium::WebDriver::Error::ElementNotVisibleError
  • Selenium::WebDriver::Error::NoSuchFrameError

You might have a table without a primary key set in MySQL.

You can fix this by adding a primary key index to the guilty MySQL table, or by setting self.primary_key = "id" in your class definition.

Related, but different issue: Rails 2 does not find an association when it is named with a string instead of a symbol

Spreewald includes a few useful steps for debugging a Capybara session.

Then show me the page # => Opens the page in the browser
Then debugger # => Open a debugging session

Usually, Cucumber feature files live in features/. When you group them in sub directories, make sure to add -r features to the standard Cucumber options.

In Rails apps, Cucumber options are likely to be stored in config/cucumber.yml.

I had to deal with JavaScript Undefined Error while accessing a specific CKEditor instance to fill in text.

Ensure everything is loaded with

patiently do
  page.execute_script("return isCkeditorLoaded('#{selector}');").should be_true
end

Example

The fill in text snippet for Cucumber:

When /^I fill in the "([^\"]+)" WYSIWYG editor with:$/ do |selector, html|
  patiently do
    page.execute_script("return isCkeditorLoaded('#{selector}');").should be_true
  end
  html.gsub!(/\n+/, "") # otherwise: unterminated string lit...

Sometimes you have a test expectation but actually want a better error message in case of a failure. Here is how to do that.

Background

Consider this test:

expect(User.last).to be_present

In case of an error, it will fail with a not-so-helpful error message:

expected present? to return true, got false (Spec::Expectations::ExpectationNotMetError)

Solution

That can be fixed easily. RSpec expectations allow you to pass an error message like this:

expect(User.last).to be_present, 'Could not find a user!'

...

If you have a text that is edited by WSYIWYG-Editor but want some length checking nevertheless, you need to strip all tags and then the special characters:

  def hard_sanitize(text)
    ActionController::Base.helpers.strip_tags(text).gsub(/[^[:word:]]+/, " ")
  end

   :001 > hard_sanitize("This is <strong>beautiful</strong> <h1>markup<h1>")
   => "This is beautiful markup" 

If you allready have nokogiri on board, you can use that as well, though it has no extra benefit:

   :001 > Nokogiri::HTML("This is <strong>beau...

After I upgraded to Mac OS X Mavericks, I regularly got this error message when running Cucumber features with Selenium:

Element cannot be scrolled into view:[object XrayWrapper [object HTMLInputElement]] (Selenium::WebDriver::Error::MoveTargetOutOfBoundsError)

I had the Terminal window running the test on my secondary screen, whereas the Selenium-webdriven Firefox always started on my primary one. Now if I had focused the secondary screen when running the tests, Selenium could not start Firefox and switch to it (probably because t...

Introducing Trailer from HouseTrip, a simple menu bar app that helps you manage your GitHub pull requests. It’s one feature we felt was lacking from our workflow!

If your terminal has many tabs, you'll want to keep them organized. To change their title from the prompt, run this function:

function tab_title {
  if [ -z "$1" ]
  then
    title=${PWD##*/} # current directory
  else
    title=$1 # first param
  fi
  echo -n -e "\033]0;$title\007"
}

Put it into your ~/.bashrc to have it always available. Adjust to your needs.

Usage

$> tab_title
# title set to the current directory's name
$> tab_title new_title
# title set to "new_title"

Auto-setting the title
=================...

About

A MySQL DECIMAL column is used when it is important to preserve exact precision. It takes two parameters, where precision is the total number of digits and scale the number of digits to the right of the decimal point. A DECIMAL(6,2) column may store numbers up to 9,999.99.

In Rails, a decimal column definition looks like this: t.decimal :amount, :precision => 6, :scale => 2.

Issue

MySQL prior to 5.6 stored leading zeros (0003.1) and +/- characters (+2.1) within the column. However, **it would permit storing ...

If you want to test that a certain text is contained within the document title of your page, you can do so using Selenium and a step such as

Then /^"(.*?)" should be shown in the document title$/ do |expectation|
  title = page.driver.browser.title
  title.should include(expectation)
end

TLDR: This card explains which threads and processes interact with each other when you run a Selenium test with Capybara. This will help you understand "impossible" behavior of your tests.

When you run a Rack::Test (non-Javascript) test with Capybara, there is a single process in play. It runs both your test script and the server responding to the user interactions scripted by your test.

A Selenium (Javascript) test has a lot more moving parts:

1. One process runs your test script. This is the process you...

We've since created ActiveType which has a restricted subset of Virtus' features. It might be enough for your needs.

We sometimes give our ActiveRecord models virtual attributes for values that don't need to be stored permanently.

When such a virtual attribute should contain integer values you might get unexpected behavior with forms, because every param is a string and you don't get the magic type casting that Rails would give you if it ...

An annoying part of using font icons is that the icons usually need to live in the DOM. This is a step back from the time when we defined raster icons with background-image, in the CSS.

It doesn't have to be that way.

Copy the attached file font-awesome-sass.css.sass to your assets (we recommend /vendor/asset-libs/font-awesome-sass).

You can now use Font Awesome icons from your Sass files:

@import font-awesome-sass

...

Modern IRB has time measurement built in.

measure # Enable
measure :off # Disable

Custom

Should your version of IRB not offer this feature, you can measure manually. Paste this method into your console:

def time(&block) puts Benchmark.measure(&block) end

Now time { Some.lengthy_task } will behave similar to the bash time command. Of course you can do much more with the Benchmark object than just putsing it – adapt to your needs.

# Attach a file
#
# Example:
#
#   Company.new.logo = File.new…
#
#   Given the file "…" was attached as logo to the company above
#
#
# Example:
#
#   class Gallery
#     has_many :images, :as => :owner
#   end
#
#   class Image
#     belongs_to :owner, polymorphic: true
#   end
#
#   # so container = Image.new; container.file = File.new… , container.owner = object
#
#   Given the file "…" was attached as Image/file to the company above
#
#
# Example:
#
#   Set updated_at with
#
#     Given … above at "2011-11-11 11:11"
#

This error occurs when you already have a database.yml which defines the database for the cucumber environment instead of test. (Spreewald database.sample.yml has changed)

Fix

Change cucumber to test in your databse.yml

test:    # <---
  adapter: mysql2
  database: spreewald_test
  encoding: utf8
  host: localhost
  username: root
  password: password

I've written about the problem with user stories before. At the time, I found it better to just have the team talk over proposed changes to the product. This worked great when the team had gelled and the product is very mature; however, now I'm working with a new team and building a product from scratch. In this case, because our canvas is blank, we are having trouble getting on the same page when it comes to customer motivations, events and expectations. But today, things have turned around. I've come across a great way to use the jobs to...

Font Awesome 4 has renamed all icons. What the fuck.

Check the attached link for an icon list for the old Font Awesome 3.2.1.

Note

The following icons are listed on the linked page but may not exist in your vendored font:

icon-adn
icon-align
icon-ambulance
icon-anchor
icon-android
icon-angle
icon-apple
icon-archive
icon-arrow
icon-ban
icon-bar
icon-beer
icon-bitbucket
icon-btc
icon-bug
icon-building
icon-bullseye
icon-caret
icon-chevron
icon-circle
icon-cny
icon-code
icon-coffee
icon-col...

When you build a link for an email body like this

body = "Please click the following link"
body << "http://posts/130\n\n"
body << "Members:"
...

then updating Spreewald to >=0.6.7 will be able to parse it correctly.