swaks is a very nice tool to test SMTP. For the most linux distributions you can easily install it with...
Install and configure the AWS Command Line Interface Show existing certificates to test if the AWS Cli is working:
One of many useful techniques when your test suite needs to talk to a remote API.
If you need to enable NewRelic monitoring on certain machines within the same Rails environment, a simple solution is to...
Rails has always included a scaffold script that generates a default controller implementation for you. Unfortunately that generated controller is...
It is good programming practice to Don't Repeat Yourself (or DRY). In Ruby on Rails we keep our code...
Geordi 0.16+ supports running selenium tests with project-specific firefox versions. Just update the gem. It will still default to...
If you need to test interaction with a remote API, check out the VCR gem as an alternative to Webmock...
So you client has asked you to implement a row of buttons to like the URL on Facebook, Twitter and...
You might not know that Rails disables CSRF protection in tests. This means that if you accidentally forget to send...
Copy the attached file to features/support. This gets you a convenience method: Capybara.javascript_test? Is true for Selenium, capybara-webkit...
If you want to have routes that are only available in tests (e.g. for testing obscure redirects), you can use...
Using text-transform: uppercase - especially on form labels - can cause you serious headaches in Selenium tests. Sometimes the web driver...
Did you know you can color your line-throughs or underline, or make them wavy like spell-checkers do?
We sometimes send calender data or tasks using iCalendar (ICS) via eMail as specified in RFC 5545. Recently, a customer...
In contrast to RSpec's included allow_value matcher, the attached matcher will also work on associations, which makes it...
Preface: Normally, you would not need this in integrations tests (probably that's why it is so hard to achieve...
The translation method translate and its alias t have bang brothers: translate! and t!. They will raise I18n::MissingTranslationData on...
When two classes implement the same behavior (methods, callbacks, etc.), you should extract that behavior into a trait or module...
Custom matchers are a useful RSpec feature which you can use to DRY up repetitive expectations in your specs. Unfortunately...
Shared example groups are a useful RSpec feature. Unfortunately the default directory structure generated by rspec-rails has no obvious...
Capistrano 2 brings the shell command which allows you to run commands on your deployment targets. There is also invoke...
Simply give the select helper an option :disabled, passing either a single value or an array. You need to specify...
So you're hunting down a regression (or just a bug) and want to use git bisect to find out...