When your Cucumber feature needs to browse the page HTML, and you are not sure how to express your query as a clever CSS or XPath expression, there is another way: You can use all and find to grep through the DOM and then perform your search in plain Ruby.

Here is an example for this technique:

Then /^I should see an image with the file...

When you need to create a locale for a language variant (like Austrian for German), you probably don't want to duplicate your entire de.yml file only to change a few minor exceptions for our Austrian friends.

Luckily, the I18n gem used by Rails has a fallback feature where you can make one locale file fall back to another if no translation is available.

In the example above you would have a config/locales/de_DE.yml:

de_DE:
  # hundreds of translations here

... and another...

I think this pattern is really useful not just for upgrading suites from Webrat, but really anywhere you have an HTML fragment or string that you’d like to use Capybara’s matchers on.

This is now part of geordi. Please don't follow the instructions below, if you use geordi.

Inspired by the recent headless Selenium note, I found yet another solution for the problem to hide your selenium tests away.

This has the advantages
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• not to require a gem (so you do not force this on others)
• to allow you to take a look at the running webdriver if necessary

Simply make a script th...

When you have a program running in a hidden X screen (like with Xvfb for Selenium tests) you may want to look at that hidden screen occasionally.

First, find out what X displays are currently active:

netstat -nlp | grep X11

This should give you some results like these:

unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     8029600  4086/Xvfb           /tmp/.X11-unix/X99
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     8616     -     ...

This note describes how to kick a user out of a Rails application after she hasn't requested an action for a while. Note that this is different from deleting sessions some time after the last login, which is the default.

Also note that this is probably a bad idea. Most sites keep sessions alive forever because having to sign in again and again is quite inconvenient for users and makes your conversion rates go down the toilet. [The Clearance default is to keep sessions around for one year](https://makandracards.com/makandra/701-when-sessio...

If you use Selenium and Launchy to open web pages, you might run into an error saying "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible.".

This happens because Launchy tries to use your Firefox running the web driver to open the page.

For Launchy < 0.4.x, as a workaround you can set an environment variable

export LAUNCHY_BROWSER=`which google-chrome`

For newer Launchys you also need to set:

export BROWSER=`which google-chrome`

If you want to do this in a ruby script, you can say

chrome_path ...

API breakage ahoy. You need to either upgrade your Capybara or downgrade your selenium-webdriver gem.

Alternatively, this could solve your trouble.

Note: Consider using MATE instead of Gnome 3 on newer system

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. Unfortunately, it is only a window manager, and lacks a lot of Gnome's conveniences like the network manager, application menus, automatic updates etc.

Fortunately, Gnome allows you to selectively replace only the win...

VirtualBox does not offer anything for this task -- you need to do it yourself. It's not that hard:

Get more disk space

1. Add an extra virtual hard disk to the machine with the disk size you want to achieve.
2. Get a Linux live CD (like the Ubuntu live image) that offers fdisk, dd and gParted.
3. Boot the guest from the CD, open a terminal (on the guest, not the host!) and become root: sudo su
4. fdisk -l to see the disk information. \
   There should be one drive with some partitions and one without any....

These steps are now part of Spreewald.

Since Capybara 0.4.1 a within scope will only look at the first element that matches. We find this behavior to be impractical, but it is by design.

In order to perform a test or action in all matching elements, do not use within but prefer the attached "inside any" Cucumber steps like these:

When I follow "Foo" inside any "table"
Then I should see "Bar" inside any "li"

The step definition below allows you to write:

Then I should see a link labeled "Foo"
But I should not see a link labeled "Bar"

Webrat

Then /^I should( not)? see a link labeled "([^"]*)"$/ do |negate, label|
  expectation = negate ? :should_not : :should
  response.send(expectation, have_selector("a", :content => label))
end

Capybara

Then /^I should( not)? see a link labeled "([^"]*)"$/ do |negate, label|
  expectation = negate ? :should_not : :should
  page.send(expectat...

Here is how to switch your Selenium to Chrome:

1. Make sure you've got a recent version of chromedriver in your $PATH

See also geordi chromedriver_update which is automatically executed before every usage of geordi cucumber.

2. Register Driver:

Create a file features/support/capybara.rb with the following content for recent version of Capybara:

Capybara.register_driver :selenium do |app|
  Capyb...

If you need Google Chrome to run in English, and your system locale is a non-English one, you have two options:

• Switch your system to an English locale
• Head over to /opt/google/chrome/locales/ and remove any .pak files except those starting with “en”. They reappear when Chrome gets updated.

This may help you running your Selenium tests using the Chrome driver on applications that choose the language from what the browser sends as preferred language (which Chrome guesses from your system locale).

When some of your Google contacts are no longer synchronized with your e-mail client or mobile phone, those contacts are not in a group "My Contacts". Google only syncs contacts in that group.

In order to fix this:

• Open Google Contacts
• Select all contacts (there's a link)
• Press "Move to My Contacts"

Note that when you are using Mozilla Thunderbird with the Google Contacts add-on, Thunderbird won't add new contacts into the "My Co...

We recently added custom fields to Highrise which allow you to keep track of extra details beyond standard contact information like phone, email, address, etc. After the launch, we had a “looking back” conversation to see what lessons could be learned from the process.

I encountered a bug in RSpec 1.x where stubbed class methods ("static methods") would not be unstubbed before the next example, causing it to fail. This behavior can come and go as you edit your specs, since this can change the order in which RSpec evaluates your .rb files.

I was not able to find a fix for this behavior. Calling #rspec_reset und #unstub!(:method) on the class after the example did not help. I know for sure that stubbing static methods has not been a problem in many other projects. I encountered the bug while working o...

I pushed a new version of the Cucumber Factory gem. This new release lets you refer to a previously created record by any string attribute:

Given there is a movie with the title "Before Sunrise"
And there is a movie with the title "Limitless"
And there is a movie with the prequel "Before Sunrise"

Note how we didn't have to explicitly give the prequel a name in the example above. This is still possible, but will rarely be necessary now:

Given "Before Sunrise" is a movie with...

In order to request a SSL certificate from any dealer, you usually need a CSR certificate. As both the CSR as well as key are created in this step, make sure you save this certificate on a trusted, secure machine only. Usually this is your production environment.

Run this on the server (not on your machine) as root.\
Replace your-domain.tld with the domain you request the certificate for and YYYY with the current year so you will not have any conflicts when requesting a certificate next year.

openssl req -new -sha256 -out www.your-dom...

XPath matchers can be combined with CSS-selector matchers. This is really useful if not, for example, the content of an element should be matched but the element itself like in the following example. Here a form is used to display data as default value in its input elements. This can be the case in web applications in which data should be edited easily without additional clicks.

When your cucumber features grow massively over time, the test execution can take a lot of time.
One easy way to speed up your test execution is to use the parallel_tests gem.
It comes along with some useful rake tasks that let you setup your local test environment shortly to run your features, specs or unit-tests in parallel.

Follow these steps to get it to work.

1. Add the parallel_tests gem to your Gemfile test sections like that:

   # ./Gemfile
   
   group :development, :test do
   

...

This is an awful way to test whether a number is shown on the screen:

Then I should see "5"

It is awful because the step above is green for 5, 5123 and -51.

This step definition below makes sure this doesn't happen. You can use it like this:

Then I should see the number 5

The step also works if you you'd like to test that the number is followed by a unit:

Then I should see the amount 5 €

The separator between the number and its unit is allowed to be either a space or a [nbsp](https://makandracards.com/makandra/838-generate...