...execute browser-less, console-based, javascript + DOM code right from within your Rails test suite...
Johnson wraps JavaScript in a loving Ruby embrace. It embeds the Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScript runtime as a C extension...
Here are a few common patterns that will probably lead to flaky specs. If you notice them in your specs, please make sure that you have not introduced a flaky...
Using Capybara RSpec matchers One rule of thumb I try to follow in capybara tests is using capybara matchers and not plain rspec matchers. One example: visit(some_page...
...block evaluates to true. first_post_with_image = posts.find do |post| post.image end However, sometimes it's not the item you're interested in, but some value depening on it...
...image).find(&:present?).url If the mapping is a costly operation or has undesirable side effects, you need to do it in a single iteration instead. Single iteration solution with...
min-width is known as a CSS property that can be set to define a least width for an element. Surprisingly, it can also be used to set something that...
...it is more like "auto". This can make block elements take up much more space than desired, even stretching their container beyond the screen edge on small screens.
...can use ETags to allow clients to use cached responses, if your application would send the same contents as before. Besides what "actually" defines your response's contents, your application...
...probably also considers "global" conditions, like which user is signed in: class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base etag { current_user&.id } etag { current_user&.updated_at } end Under the hood, Rails generates...
...command-line tool for REPL (Read Eval Print Loop). Type gem help info to see a list of available switches. Note that the Ruby API offers a bit more insight...
...Gem Ruby API (at runtime) First, get the Gem::Specification of the gem you are looking for. That object holds all the information from the gem's gemspec file, and...
...in licensing, we cannot provide Elasticsearch versions >= 8.0. Version 7.17.x will reach EOL status with the release of Elasticsearch version 9. We have decided to use OpenSearch as a...
...replacement, since it is a fork of Elasticsearch version 7.10.2, still running under the previous licensing model and wire-compatible. A more detailed reasoning can be found on their website...
...record/replay cassettes for any RSpec example tagged as :vcr or vcr: true. If a spec is not tagged with :vcr, VCR will complain about any attempted HTTP request. This is...
...this off temporarily, e.g. to communicate with an actual API while writing a new spec, simply add the line c.allow_http_connections_when_no_cassette = true to the VCR.configure-block...
...with a nice way to grep through your project's files: The finder (ctrl + shift + f). Don't be discouraged about the notice 100+ matches in n+ files if your...
...searched keyword is too general or widely used in your project. RubyMine comes with a few ways to narrow down the resulting list, don't hesitate to apply those filters...
...always is to prevent long-running queries in the first place, automatic timeouts can serve as a safety net to terminate problematic queries automatically if a set time limit is...
...statement due to statement timeout (PG::QueryCanceled)). If multiple SQL statements appear in a single simple-query message, the timeout is applied to each statement separately. Set the timeout globally...
With passenger-status --show=requests you can get a huge JSON showing current information about the running passenger processes. This can be useful if you want to find out what...
...a passenger process is doing at the moment (for e.g. if one worker seems to be stuck): * PID: 4273 Sessions: 1 Processed: 47 Uptime: 50m 53s CPU: 43% Memory : 3644M...
When you find similar groups of expect calls in your tests, you can improve readability by extracting the group into its own matcher. RSpec makes this easy by allowing matchers...
We can extract the repeated matcher chains into a custom matcher called be_shouting: expect(foo).to be_shouting expect(bar).to be_shouting Instead of re-implementing the...
...a MacBook that uses an M1 or M2 Chip. Documentation on the Internet is sparse and not even the Geniuses at the Genius Bar are 100% sure. We found out...
...your MacBook, using more than one external display is only possible with workarounds. Docking stations Whenever you're considering using more than 1 external display, it makes sense to consider...
...upgrade tasks according to its actual value. Consider to create and periodically maintain a summary, which helps you and your team in the decision which refactoring task should be taken...
Estimated Efforts Visible customer value Customer value explained Developer value Developer value explained Short title for the task Score from 0-5 Score from 0-5 Explanation
GoodJob and ActiveJob rescue exceptions internally, preventing exception_notification from triggering. This can cause silent job failures.To get notified, subscribe to ActiveJob events and configure GoodJob's on_thread_error...
...job failures, as they are handled internally by ActiveJob/GoodJob. ActiveSupport::Notifications.subscribe(/(enqueue_retry|retry_stopped|discard)\.active_job/) do |event_name, *, payload| exception = payload[:error] job = payload[:job]
Modern CSS offers the field-sizing property to allow elements to automatically adjust size (width and/or height) to fit their contents. The most common use case are textareas which start...
...fairly small (e.g. 2 or 3 rows tall) but grow when users enter longer text. Usage textarea { field-sizing: content; } That's it! At least in modern Chromium-based browsers...
...updates all your gems at once. Given that many gems don't care about stable APIs, this might break your application in a million ways. To stay sane, update your...
...This ensures that your libraries are up-to-date while it's easy to spot major version bumps which may break the app. Projects that have not been updated in...
...the commit which was deployed. If you want to know the currently deployed release, simply SSH to a server and view that file. $ cat /var/www/my-project/current/REVISION cf8734ece3938fc67262ad5e0d4336f820689307 Capistrano task
...application is deployed to multiple servers, you probably want to see a result for all of them. Here is a Capistrano task that checks all servers with the :app role...
Geordi provides a pretty neat way to generate beautiful commit messages according to your stories in Linear: geordi commit Geordi reads from a .geordi.yml file inside your repo and connects...
...to Linear to list started and finished stories with their title. Choosing one of them generates a commit message including id and title from Linear app and a link to...
PostgreSQL's Common Table Expressions (CTEs) can be used to extract sub-queries from bulky SQL statements into a temporary table to be referenced instead. This is most useful to...
...avoid ugly joins or sub-selects. CTEs can be used for SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE. Example From the PostgreSQL docs: WITH regional_sales AS ( SELECT region, SUM(amount) AS...
Debouncing a method call delays its execution until after a specified time has passed. If it's called again before that time has passed, its execution is delayed again.
...would be run more often than it needs to. One example for that are scroll event handlers in JavaScript: You want to react to a user scrolling, but it's...
Sometimes you need to remove high Unicode characters from a string, so all characters have a code point between 0 and 127. The remaining 7-bit-encoded characters ("Low-ASCII...
...can be transported in most strings where escaping is impossible or would be visually jarrring. Note Transliteration this will change the string. If you need to preserve the exact string...
Applications often show or hide elements based on viewport dimensions, or may have components that behave differently (like mobile vs desktop navigation menus). Since you want your integration tests to...
...behave consistently, you want to set a specific size for your tests' browser windows. Using WebDriver options / Chrome device metrics For Google Chrome, the preferred way is setting "device metrics...