...progress for the Rails 7 version Documentation for rspec-core Using metadata attributes to write spec-type specific before blocks Shared examples and contexts in RSpec Testing shared traits or...
Sharing test setup can lead to DRY, but tightly coupled test code. Read Prefer self-contained examples for an argument for isolating tests instead, even if it means some...
We use foreman to start all necessary processes for an application, which are declared in a Procfile. This is very convenient, but the outputs of all processes get merged together...
...Especially while debugging you might not want other processes to flood your screen with their log messages. The following setup allows you to start Terminator in a split view with...
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...
We're always striving towards keeping our website's JavaScript as small as possible. If you're using webpack(er), you can use the webpack-bundle-analyzer plugin to get...
...a good overview, which of your JavaScript modules take up how much space, and where you can optimize. To use it, add it via npm or yarn yarn add webpack...
...on a very good network connection. To test how your application behaves on a slow network (e.g. mobile), you can simulate limited bandwidth. Chrome Open the dev tools (Ctrl+Shift...
...I or F12) and switch to the "Network" tab In the row below the dev tool tabs, there's a throttling dropdown which reads "Online" by default. Inside the dropdown...
...after the current transaction, without defining a model "global" after_commit callback. def do_something update_column(:foo, "bar") send_email(foo: "bar") end The above code is brittle if...
...it's called within a failing transaction: ActiveRecord::Base.transaction do user.do_something raise "oh no, my transaction failed" end In the case above, the database update is lost, but the...
Occasionally you need to do something directly on the server -- like having all records recalculate something that cannot be done in a migration because it takes a long time.
...s say you do something like this: Project.all.each(&:recalculate_statistics!) Even though you may have been successful with this on your development machine or the staging server, keep in mind...
Whenever you have to deal with randomness in a jasmine test there are some spy strategies to help you out! Let's say we have a method Random.shuffle(array) to...
...shuffle an array randomly and a class that uses shuffle within the constructor. returnValue & returnValues it('shuffles the array', () => { spyOn(Random, 'shuffle').and.returnValue([3, 2, 1])
When your site is on HTTPS and you are linking or redirecting to a HTTP site, the browser will not send a referrer. This means the target site will see...
Clients SHOULD NOT include a Referer header field in a (non-secure) HTTP request if the referring page was transferred with a secure protocol.
I find it annoying to iterate on a spec that relies on a recorded VCR casette...
...You constantly have to remove the same YAMLs file before you can re-run that still-red test. With this little helper, you (or your coding agent) can do the...
TL;DR: Rails ships two methods to convert strings to constants, constantize and safe_constantize. Neither is safe for untrusted user input. Before you call either method you must validate...
...the input string against an allowlist. The only difference between the two methods is that unresolvable constants raise an error with constantize, but return nil with safe_constantize. If you...
For years we copied the patiently helpers into our test suites. they now live in their own gem (makandra/patiently) where we can test them and distribute changes. Setup
# Gemfile gem "patiently" Replace the vendored boilerplate with a single require: # spec/support/patiently.rb require "patiently/rspec" # includes the helpers into feature + system specs Or include it yourself anywhere: include Patiently...
Line-height and vertical-align are simple CSS properties. So simple that most of us are convinced to fully understand how they work and how to use them. But it...
...less-known feature of CSS: inline formatting context. For example, line-height can be set as a length or a unitless value 1, but the default is normal. OK, but...
expect(page).to have_field('Username') { |field| field[:class].blank? } Limitations Using execute_script, evaluate_script or evaluate_async_script within a filter block will crash with a timeout...
...Selenium::WebDriver::Error::ScriptTimeoutError Exception: script timeout This is due to Capybara using a zero timeout while calling the filter block. A workaround is to temporarily set a different timeout...
You can execute systemctl --user --failed to check for failed systemd user units. But let's face it: It's inconvenient and you'll probably miss failures. Better use desktop...
...pipewire.socket ConditionUser=!root [Service] LockPersonality=yes MemoryDenyWriteExecute=yes NoNewPrivileges=yes RestrictNamespaces=yes SystemCallArchitectures=native SystemCallFilter=@system-service Type=simple ExecStart=/usr/bin/pipewire Restart=on-failure Slice=session.slice [Install] Also=pipewire.socket
...animate HTML elements using the Web Animation API's method .animate(keyframes, options) (which seems to be Baseline for all browsers since 2022). const fadeIn = [{ opacity: 0 }, { opacity: 1 }] // this...
// the animation object can be used for things like querying timings or state or `pause`, `cancel` the animation animation.pause() animation.play() await animation.finished // do other stuff Even though play...
If you want to play music or sounds from a browser, your choice is to use either Flash or the new tag in HTML5. Each method has issues, but depending...
Can play MP3s or Wave files. Cannot play OGG Vorbis audio. Cannot reliably seek to a given position when playing VBR-encoded MP3s. HTML5 audio Is the future, but...
To return non-HTML responses (like XLS spreadsheets), we usually use the respond_to do |format| format.xls do # send spreadsheet end end This is often, but not always the same...
...one format checks for authorization and the other doesn't. params[:format] is only set when a user explicitly puts a .xls at the end of the URL. The format.xls...
The attached patch lets you find a record by a string or number in any column: User.find_by_anything('carla') User.find_by_anything('email@domain.de') User.find_by_anything(10023)
User.find_by_anything!('carla') Boolean and binary columns are excluded from the search because that would be crazy. I recommend copying the attachment to features/support/find_by_anything.rb, since it is...
}) Example case I had an Unpoly compiler for a tab navigation, which sets an -active class per default to the first tab link and removes it from all...
...other tab links. If another tab link is clicked, the -active class switches to the clicked link. In a Jasmine spec I wanted to test this behaviour. Unpoly's up.hello...
...they reach approx. 100MB: $ ls -lh log/ -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 55M Sep 15 09:54 development.log -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 101M Aug...
...development.log.0 This behavior is a built-in feature of Ruby's standard Logger class, which Rails uses by default. To control the maximum file size, set config.log_file_size...
Most of the time, when you are interested in any log output, you see the logs directly on your console or you tail / grep some logfile in a separate terminal...
...In rare cases it's helpful to redirect the Logger output temporary to e.g. STDOUT. Rails.logger = Logger.new(STDOUT) ActiveRecord::Base.logger = Logger.new(STDOUT) User.save! #=> D, [2025-09-08T11...
Remember How to skip Sprockets asset compile during Capistrano deployment and Automatically skipping asset compilation when assets have not changed? Turns out there is an even better way to speed...
...up Capistrano deployments with asset compilation – and it's even simpler. Adding the asset cache directory to symlinked directories Popular asset managers for Rails are Sprockets and Webpacker. Both keep...
JSON Web Tokens are often times used for authentication delegation from one system to another. They can be decoded for debugging purposes. While most tooling supports decoding base64, JWTs are...
...of type Base64url, which is slightly different and needs to be accounted for. This assumes you already have the JWT in hand, e.g. after scraping it out of an HTTP...