Spreewald keeps Cucumber-style web steps available while adding reusable steps for emails, tables and time travel in a Ruby gem.

Chrome 56+ can drop slashes when fill_in runs through Selenium and Capybara, breaking form input for paths and HTML strings; a JavaScript workaround updates the field directly.

Run only matching Cucumber feature files by searching .feature files for a string and passing the matches to geordi cucumber; similar xargs pipelines work without Geordi.

IRB and Rails console sessions can time code execution directly with measure; older versions can use Benchmark.measure for manual timing.

Run rspec and Cucumber from any project directory with optional spinner support; features are skipped when specs fail.

Split an enumerable into matching and non-matching groups with Enumerable#partition, returning two arrays and working naturally with destructuring assignment.

Rails 3 requires rspec and rspec-rails 2, with renamed namespaces, changed requires, and macro extensions that may break during migration.

Run custom setup code before selected RSpec examples using metadata tags instead of Cucumber scenarios.

RSpec’s nested documentation format prints example descriptions while specs run, making warnings and failures visible immediately and giving a quick view of core behavior.

rspec_rails with Rails 6.1 can raise WrongScopeError; upgrading the gem to 4.0.1 or later resolves the failure.

has_select? can fail with Cucumber, Capybara, and Selenium when the selected option has no value, so driver-specific handling may be needed.

Specs can stall for 30+ seconds when SOLR connections are left open and the pool is exhausted. Lowering the old-connection timeout reduces the delay.

VCR can block WebMock stubs because it hooks into WebMock and rejects unknown requests. Temporarily disabling VCR in rspec lets WebMock behave normally.

Chrome/Selenium can miss clicks on barely visible elements when the click target is outside the viewport. A scrollIntoViewIfNeeded patch can work around the issue.

IMAP login problems can be isolated by testing the server with openssl s_client and sending a manual LOGIN command to verify credentials and connectivity.

Parallel Selenium features can time out when Capybara waits too little for browser-server interactions; a support file increases patience for @javascript scenarios.

Less-known RSpec features simplify expectation style, chained stubs, and restoring stubbed methods while using double as the preferred mock object.

Temporary monkey patch for older Capybara and selenium-webdriver versions to suppress repeated deprecation warnings from Selenium::WebDriver::Element#select.

Spreewald 1.3.0 adds assertions for checking whether CSS selectors are present or absent on the current page, with plain-English selector names via selector_for.

Force a fixed client IP in Cucumber scenarios when request-dependent code needs predictable behavior.

in and of mean different things in CoffeeScript and JavaScript, making property checks and iteration easy to mix up.