Cucumber: Prevent outstanding AJAX requests to bleed into other scenarios
When using Cucumber with Selenium or some other Javascript-enabled browser, AJAX request can sometimes "bleed" into the next scenario. This happens when a scenario triggers an AJAX request near the end, but does not wait for it to complete.
To avoid this, add the attached code to your cucumber's /features/support directory. It will disable AJAX requests at the end of the scenario and wait for outstanding requests to complete.
Requires spreewald and only works for requests triggered by jQuery.
Cucumber step to match table rows with Capybara
These steps are now part of Spreewald.
This note describes a Cucumber step that lets you write this:
Then I should see a table with the following rows:
| Bruce Wayne | Employee | 1972 |
| Harleen Quinzel | HR | 1982 |
| Alfred Pennyworth | Engineering | 1943 |
If there are additional columns or rows in the table that are not explicitely expected, the step won't complain. It does however expect the rows to be ordered as stat…
Beware: Nested Spreewald patiently blocks are not patient
Note: The behaviour of Spreewald's within step is as described below for version < 1.9.0; For Spreewald >= 1.9.0 it is as described in Solution 1.
When doing integration testing with cucumber and selenium you will often encounter problems with timing - For example if your test runs faster than your application, html elements may not yet be visible when the test looks for them. That's why Spreewald (a collection of cucumber steps) has a concept of doing things patiently, which means a given b…
Improving browser rendering performance
As the web is being used for more and more tasks, expectations rise. Not only should web pages offer rich interaction, they must be responsive in both size and interaction.
This imposes a paradoxon that needs to be solved by building performing applications. It's not enough any more to have your web site do crazy stuff, it is also required to do it crazy fast. This card is intended to give you an introduction to this emerging aspect of web development.
Read this introductory [performance study on Pinterest](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/…
Subclassing module
Yesterday I stumbled across a talk in which the guy mentioned module sub-classing. I was curious what you can do with it and found his blog post with a cool example. It allows you to inject some state into the module you are including elsewhere. Check it out!
```
class AttributeAccessor < Module
def initialize(name)
@name = name
end
def included(model)
super
define_accessors
end
private
def define_accessors
ivar = "@#{@name}"
define_writer(ivar)
define_reader(ivar)
end
def define_writer(ivar)
…
Understanding AngularJS service types
Angular comes with different types of services. Each one with its own use cases.
All of these services are singletons. You probably want to use Factory all the time.
Provider
- is the parent of all other services (except
constant) - can be configured using `app.config(function(Provider) { ...})
- a little complex
Factory
- simpler than Provider, but without configuration
- definition: `app.factory('name', someFunction)
someFunctionis called when thenameservice is instantiated and should return an object
Se…
Taking screenshots in Capybara
Capybara-screenshot can automatically save screenshots and the HTML for failed Capybara tests in Cucumber, RSpec or Minitest.
Requires Capybara-Webkit, Selenium or poltergeist for making screenshots. They're saved into $APPLICATION_ROOT/tmp/capybara
The attached files contain config for cucumber integration and a Then show me a screenshot step.
Geordi 1.5.1 released
- Improve
geordi cucumber: Only attempt @solo run when the specified files contain the @solo tag, skip @solo run if any filename is passed with a line number (e.g.features/example.feature:3) - Improve
geordi deploy: Find stages by their prefix (e.g.s-> staging,m-> makandra), bundle if needed, check the selected stage exists - Improve
geordi server: Takes port as argument (e.g.geordi ser 3001), option--public(-P) starts the server with-b 0.0.0.0to make it accessible from other machines in the local network, e.g. …