Update: This trick probably isn't very useful anymore in Ruby 2.x. The Ruby GC has improved a lot...
If you’re testing the behavior of deprecated code in your Ruby project, the warning messages littered throughout your spec...
Git allows you to do a binary search across commits to hunt down the commit that introduced a bug.
When your site is mapped into the URL-space of another server using mod_proxy, ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse, all requests...
These steps are now part of Spreewald. The step definitions below allow you to test the filename suggested by the...
The step definitions below allow you to write this in both Webrat and Capybara: When I follow "Download as PDF...
Our collection of the most useful Cucumber steps, Spreewald, now supports exact matching of form fields and lets you use...
The ‘merge.*.driver` variable’s value is used to construct a command to run to merge ancestor’s version, current...
When you need to see the content of a page (i.e. not all the HTML but the relevant text body...
You can use these step definitions: Then /^I should not see an error$/ do (200 .. 399).should include(page.status_code...
RSpec 1, RSpec 2 To test whether two arrays have the same elements regardless of order, RSpec 1 and 2...
When you just went through a long debug-fest and infested your code with dozens of debug messages, it can...
Don't insert table rows in a Rails database migration. This will break tests that expect that database to be...
In order to go back one page in your Cucumber tests, you can use the following step definition for Capybara...
Plugins (and gems) are typically tested using a complete sample rails application that lives in the spec folder of the...
This step tests whether a given select option comes preselected in the HTML. There is another step to test that...
This is non-trivial because you need to fake event objects and require different code for different browsers. Luckily, there...
This note describes a Cucumber step definition that lets you test whether or not a CSS selector is present on...
Sometimes you inherit a non Rails or non Rack based web app such as PHP, Perl, Java / JEE, etc. I...
The ancestry gem allows you to easily use tree structures in your Rails application. There is one somewhat unobvious pitfall...
Sometimes the order in which strings appear on a page matters to you. Spreewald gives you steps like these:
These steps are now part of Spreewald. This note describes a Cucumber step that lets you write this:
Both these approaches will keep your GET parameters -- and will only work for GET requests. Capybara: When /^I reload the...
power-rake db:migrate VERSION=20100913132321 By default the environments development, test, cucumber and performance are considered...