You need to update a lof gems. Make sure you don't have any version constraints in your...

We often use the Then console step from spreewald in combination with geordi vnc from geordi to debug tests within...

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In Spreewald 1.10.4+, nested patiently blocks are now patient. Here is an example: patiently do outer_code patiently do

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When flagging a spec that will be implemented later as pending, include a failing spec body or RSpec 3 will...

When you have a pending Cucumber step (or feature) that also uses an existing VCR cassette, your pending test may...

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Katapult 0.3.0 brings Rails 5 and Ruby 2.5 support with a new design, plus a ton of smaller features, fixes...

This cucumber step is useful for testing an image (looking at the src of the image). Then(/^I should see...

To check which elements an ActiveRecord relation contains use the contain_exactly matcher. describe User do let!(:admin) { create(:user...

This is a small example on how you can check if your Postgres index can be used by a specific...

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The issue: You are using stub_const to change a constant value for your test. stub_const "SomeClass::CONST", 'test...

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This error is raised because your old database does not have a configured environment yet, which Rails 5 enforces.

Situation: You want to write a spec for a function inside an Angular service. This function at some point makes...

By default, browsers will not wrap text at syllable boundaries. Text is wrapped at word boundaries only. This card explains...

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HTTPie consists of a single http command designed for painless debugging and interaction with HTTP servers, RESTful APIs, and web...

PostgreSQL supports the SQL OVERLAPS operator. You can use it to test if two date ranges overlap: => SELECT ('2001-02...

Summary: Don't add chromedriver-helper to the Gemfile the executables might break your tests in projects where chromedriver-helper...

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In most projects I know, Cucumber test suite speed is not an issue. Of course, running 350 features takes its...

Sometimes when working with VCR you still want to use webmock. Since VCR hooks into webmock and fails when an...

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Requestb.in is a webservice that gives you a temporary URL you can use to test request. The page will automatically...

We're usually running Ubuntu LTS versions. Sometimes newer hardware requires packages from more recent Ubuntu releases that only come...

Checking if a JavaScript value is of a given type can be very confusing: There are two operators typeof and...

RSpec allows you to mark a single Example/ExampleGroup so that only this will be run. This is very useful when...

If you already selected an element and want to get its parent, you can call find(:xpath, '..') on it.

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When an Rspec example fails, I usually investigate by running that example again using rspec . However, this does not work...