Upgrading from Ruby 1.8.7 to 2.1.2 took me an hour for a medium-sized application. It involved hardly any changes...
Cucumber allows for prose in features and scenarios. Example: Feature: Cancel account There are several ways to cancel a user...
This is a problem when using Selenium with Firefox. We recommend using ChromeDriver for your Selenium tests. Firefox will not...
Using this gem I could get JSON generation from a large, nested Ruby hash down from 200ms to 2ms.
Firefox 5.0.1, which we were using for most Rails 2.3 projects, does not run on Ubuntu 14.04 any more. Here...
Just install the texlive-xetex package: sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex Running integration tests without texlive-xetex will produce...
Nice tutorial about packaging Ruby bindings to your API in a Ruby gem, with tests using VCR casettes.
Capybara and most assistive technology will fail to find tags that are missing an href attribute. This will probably happen...
# config/initializers/sidekiq.rb # Perform Sidekiq jobs immediately in development, # so you don't have to run a separate process.
Though nowhere to be found in the official docs, this works just fine. describe Facebook::Post do it_behaves_like...
Sometimes you need complex expectations on method arguments like this SomeApi.should_receive(:find).with(:query => '*foo*', :sort => 'timestamp ASC', :limit...
PDFKit converts a web page to a PDF document. It uses a Webkit engine under the hood...
When using jQueryUI's Sortable plugin (either directly or via Angular's ui.sortable), you might struggle testing your nice drag...
Microsoft Exchange service administrators can enable Exchange Web Services (EWS) which is a rather accessible XML API for interacting with...
TL;DR In blueprints, always wrap associations in blocks. # Broken Task.blueprint(:vacation) do project Project.make(:vacation) hours 8 accounting_method...
In Cucumber, scenario outlines help avoiding tests that are basically the same, except for a few variables (such as different...
While RSpec 1 and 2 decided that specs inside spec/model are model specs, and those inside spec/features are feature specs...
When you don't only have a favicon.ico in your project but also PNGs of different sizes and backgrounds, you...
Spreewald 1.1.0 drops the be_true and be_false matchers in order to be RSpec 3 and Ruby 2 compatible...
Safari on iOS accepts an apple-touch-icon favicon that is used for stuff like desktop bookmarks. Always define a...
The debugger gem does not seem to be properly working on Ruby 2. Use byebug instead! Byebug is a simple...
The attached RSpec matcher allows for comfortably testing delegation. Examples describe Post do it { should delegate(:name).to(:author).with...
Automatically builds gems from Bower packages (currently 1700 gems available). Packaged Javascript files are then automatically available in your asset...
If your requests blow up in Ruby or CURL, the server you're connecting to might only support requests with...