Around will not happen until after a feature's Background has been processed. Use Before and After to avoid that.

Details

Consider this Cucumber feature file:

Feature: Something that needs to be tested

  Background:
    Given a user
      And I sign in        
    
  Scenario: Sign out
    When I sign out
    Then I should see "Signed out"
  
  Scenario: Something else
    # ...

Now, assume you have these step definitions:

Around do
  puts "** Around: before yield"

...

Give your iframe a name attribute (i.e. <iframe name="myframe">) and then simply use

When I press "Foo" in the iframe "myframe"
Then I should see "Bar!" in the iframe "myframe"

Step as follows:

Then /^(.*) in the iframe "([^\"]+)"$/ do |step, iframe_name|
  browser = page.driver.browser
  browser.switch_to.frame(iframe_name)
  step(step)
  browser.switch_to.default_content
end

This describes how to migrate an existing cucumber test suite to Spreewald.

0. Add the gem

1. Include spreewald into your cucumber environment by putting
   require 'spreewald/web_steps'
   require 'spreewald/email_steps'
   # ...
   or just
   require 'spreewald/all_steps'
   into your support/env.rb.

2. Look through your step definitions for everything that might be included in Spreewald. Candidates are web_steps, shared_steps, table_steps, `em...

Cucumber_rails' old-school web-steps have been deprecated for a while, urging developers to write high-level step definitions that directly use Capybara or Webrat.

We think that's a bit drastic. More high-level steps are good, but ticking the odd check box with a general step is not always bad.

So we took the old web steps, improved them a bit, added some other favorites of ours (steps for emails, tables, [time travelling](/ma...

Ever wanted autocompletion for paths from paths.rb in Cucumber? This card lets you write your steps like this:

When I go to path *press tab now* # path is replaced with a list of all known Cucumber paths

This is how you do it

(key shortcuts apply for TextMate2)

1. Open the bundle editor (ctrl + alt +  + B)

2. Create a new Item ( + N), select "Command"

3. Paste this:
   ^
   #!/usr/bin/env ruby -wKU
   require File.join(ENV['TM_SUPPORT_PATH'], 'lib', 'ui.rb')

   cucumber_paths = File.join ENV['TM_PROJECT_DIRECTORY'], 'features'...

The step definition below allows you to write:

Then I should see an HTML redirect to "http://www.makandracards.com" in the page head

Capybara

Then /^I should see an HTML redirect to "([^\"]*)" in the page head$/ do |redirect_url|
  page.should have_xpath("//meta[@http-equiv=\"refresh\" and contains(@content, \"#{redirect_url}\")]")
end

To find meta tags with Capybara, you can also use page.find('meta', visible: false).

If a customer calls and tells you that she cannot see some content of her website beware of the following before starting tcpdump or other forensic debugging tools.

Some ad blockers like Adblock are shipped with filters that remove (amongst others)

• divs named 'sponsor'
• images with a class "banner" or the filename "banner.png"
• images from directories named 'sponsor*'
• Image names or class names that begin with adv_....

Renaming the div to something more specific to your site and renaming...

A print stylesheet is easy to create. Choose a font suited for paper, hide some elements, done. Unfortunately print stylesheets often break as the application is developed further, because they are quickly forgotten and nobody bothers to check if their change breaks the print stylesheet.

This card describes how to write a simple Cucumber feature that tests some aspects of a print stylesheets. This way, the requirement of having a print stylesheet is manifested in your tests and cannot be inadvertedly removed from the code. Note that you can...

This article describes how to reset MySQL's or MariaDB's root password on your workstation. It's meant for local development purposes only, don't do this in production. This article will also help you if you have a fairly recent MariaDB version that uses authentication based on linux users instead of passwords for the root user and you prefer using a password for root.

Solution

Step 1 is getting a root mysql shell that allows us to change user credentials. We need to stop the mysql daemon first and re-start it without authorization c...

This works in modern RSpecs (RSpec >= 2.x) and Cucumbers:

rspec spec/models/node_spec.rb:294:322
cucumber features/nodes.feature:543:563:579

Also your features should be shorter than that :)

Sometimes you need to look at the filter chain in specs. You can do it like that on Rails 2:

controller.class.filter_chain.map(&:method)

Note that we need to look at the controller's class since before_filter and after_filter stuff happens on the class level.

Also mind that the above code will give you all filters, both those run before and after an action. You can query before? and after? on the filter objects to scope down to only some of them:

controller.class.filter_chain.select(&:before?).map(&:method)

For Rails 3, ...

So your Cucumber feature sometimes dies with this exception:

Modal Dialog Present (Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnhandledAlertError)

As a seasoned Selenium veteran you are used to misleading error messages. Hence you might be surprised that the reason for this particular error is that there is actually a modal dialog present and preventing Selenium from executing commands like click or page.have_css?.

How your code triggers this issue

The reason why a dialog is shown is somewhat fucked ...

You can quickly access views that belong to a controller by using the tiny "page with arrow" icon in the gutter:

Access a method's view file

Click the icon next to the method definition in the controller.

If a view file does not yet exist, RubyMine will prompt you for its filename.

All views & partials associated to a controller

For a list of all views and partials that belong to the current ...

In Selenium features the server and client are running in separate processes. Therefore, when mocking time with a tool like Timecop, the browser controlled by Selenium will still see the unmocked system time.

timemachine.js allows you to mock the client's time by monkey-patching into Javascript core classes. We use timemachine.js in combination with the Timecop gem to synchronize the local browser time to the ...

I recently worked on a project with 60+ old feature branches. Most of them had been merged into master and were subsequently abandoned. We decided we wanted to clean up a bit, and git made that easy.

This Firebug feature is called simply Log Events and allows developers to log DOM events into the Console panel.

All you need to do is right click on an element in the HTML panel, pick Log Events from the context menu and switch to the Console panel to see the logs in action.

No big features, but many improvements under the hood:

• Faster selector engine
• Many bug fixes

Note that jQuery 2.0, scheduled for early 2013, will remove support for IE6 and 7. Before that there will be one more minor release with 1.9 that still has support for ancient IEs.

For custom Rake tasks, you shouldn't need to modify them after the original definition. However, if you want to add behavior to some vendor tasks (such as those defined with Rails), this blog post will cover how to do that.

Consul 0.4.0 comes with some new features.

Dependencies

• Consul no longer requires assignable_values, it's optional for when you want to use the authorize_values_for macro.
• Consul no longer uses ActiveSupport::Memoizable because that's deprecated in newer Railses. Consul now uses Memoizer for this.

Temporarily change the current power

When you set Power.current to a power in an RS...

paper_trail is an excellent gem to track record versions and changes.

You almost never want to reimplement something like it yourself. If you need to log some extra information, you can add them on top.

It comes with a really good README file that holds lots of examples. I'll show you only some of its features here:

• Setting up a model to track changes

  Just add has_paper_trail to it:
  class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_paper_trail
  end

• Accessing a previous version

  Saying user.previous_version gi...

The will_paginate gem will show a default of 30 records per page.
If you want to test pagination in a Cucumber feature, you don't want to create 31 records just for that.

Instead, you probably want to modify the number of items shown, by saying something like this:

Given we paginate after 2 users

Using the following step definition, you now can! :)

require 'cucumber/rspec/doubles'

Given /^paginate after (\d+) (.*)$/ do |per_page, model_name|
  model = model_name.singularize.gsub(/...

In a nutshell: Use git rebase --onto target-branch source-commit

• target-branch means "branch you want to be based on"
• source-commit means "commit before your first feature commit"

Let's say my-feature-branch is based on master and we want it to be based on production. Consider this history:

%%{init: { 'gitGraph': {'showCommitLabel': true, 'mainBranchName': 'production'}} }%%

gitGraph
  commit id: "1"
  commit id: "2"
  branch master
  commit id: "3"
  commit id: "4"
  branch my-feature...

The $.cssHooks object provides a way to define functions for getting and setting particular CSS values. It can also be used to create new cssHooks for normalizing CSS3 features such as box shadows and gradients.

For example, some versions of Webkit-based browsers require -webkit-border-radius to set the border-radius on an element, while earlier Firefox versions require -moz-border-radius. A css hook can normalize these vendor-prefixed properties to let .css() accept a single, standard property name (border-radius, or with DOM property synt...