In Cucumber, scenario outlines help avoiding tests that are basically the same, except for a few variables (such as different inputs). So far, nothing new. The problem
...your test should (or should not) do something, like filling in a field only for some tests? Scenario Outline: ... When I open the form And I fill in "Name" with...
...to do it. Make an educated decision: Is the code change worth the effort? Stay straight on track, don't go astray. Note: Usually, you'd refactor after finishing your...
...story. At times, it might be necessary to refactor up front. But try to keep refactoring out of your current task. Knowing where to optimize Things should only be optimized...
...Ruby parser module of Ruby-GetText comes across a file in one of its search directories (e.g. lib/scripts/) and finds out that you are defining ActiveRecord classes inside it, it...
...the whole file. Here is how to avoid that. What's happening? Let's say you have the following script which is only run once, manually, via script/runner: # lib/scripts/doomsday.rb
jQuery's deferred objects behave somewhat like standard promises, but not really. One of many subtle differences is that there are two ways to chain callbacks to an async functions...
...is done, which only exists in jQuery: $.ajax('/foo').done(function(html) { console.debug("The server responded with %s", html); }); There is also then, which all promise libraries have:
I recently did a quick research on how to better write down multiline statements like this: # Dockerfile RUN export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive \ && apt-get update \ && apt-get dist-upgrade -y...
...apt-get install --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests -y \ ca-certificates \ curl \ unzip It turns out, there is! Buildkit, the tool behind docker build added support for heredoc strings...
...modern JavaScript down to EcmaScript 5. Depending on what browser a project needs to support, the final Webpack output needs to be different. E.g. when we need to support IE11...
...JavaScript features. Hence our output will be more verbose than when we only need support modern browsers. Rails 5.1+ projects often use Webpacker to preconfigure the Webpack pipeline for us...
...use Solr by calling Article.search { fulltext(title) paginate(:per_page => limit) } Now look at http://sunspot.github.com/docs/ to learn about all the possibilities of Sunspot. Overwrite Sunspots' search method
...your SysOp team that you'll need Solr on staging and production, on Ubuntu the solr-common will provide what you need. First of all you should provide Solr with...
Some users might use Adblock Plus or similar browser plugins to reduce the number of ads displayed. If you run into an issue that your application or part of an...
...our web apps. But if your application uses iframes or is embedded in another site it's more prone to it. Blocked elements most of the time appear to the...
...some beyond 50MB. Unless you need to offer this large files, you should always shrink uploaded files to a reasonable resolution. class ImageUploader < CarrierWave::Uploader::Base process resize_to_limit...
...GitHub repository is a bit like our "dev" cards deck, but groomed from a single person (Josh Branchaud). It includes an extensive list of over 900 TILs on many topics...
...TILs that were new to me. I encourage you to take your time to skim over the original list as well! Assoc For Hashes Hash#assoc can be used to...
These steps are now part of Spreewald. The step definitions below allow you to test the filename suggested by the server: When I follow "Export as ZIP"
To update your Rubygems to the latest available version, type the following: gem update --system Note that you have a separate Rubygems installation for each Ruby version in your RVM...
...or rbenv setup. Updating one does not update the others. Ruby 1.8.7 If you are using Ruby 1.8.7 you cannot use the latest version of Rubygems. Type the following to...
...messages should include the ID of the issue your code belongs to. Our preferred syntax prefixes the issue title with its ID in brackets, e.g. [FOO-123] Avatars for users...
Fresh Chrome installations now show a "Choose your search engine" popup in Europe. This might make your Cucumber tests fail. Fortunately there is a flag to disable the popup. Add...
...the following option to your chromedriver setup code: options.add_argument('--disable-search-engine-choice-screen') I found this flag in Peter Beverloo's list. Background: This was experienced locally with...
Sometimes you want to write a test for a business rule that's based on multiple variables. In your goal to cover the rule thoroughly, you start writing tests for...
...each permutation of all variables. Quickly it blows up into something unsustainable. With n variables for the business rule, you get 2n permutations/test cases. This is manageable with 2 variables...
...with modern CSS features In the past, you might have resorted to bulky JavaScript solutions or CSS hacks like transitioning between max-height: 0 and max-height: 9999px. All of...
...them were awkward and/or have several edge cases. With modern CSS, there is actually a way to do it properly: Just use a display: grid container which transitions its grid...
...need to use XPath, you can have Nokogiri help you out on creating it. Simply use Nokogiri's xpath_for: Nokogiri::CSS.xpath_for('#foo') # => ["//*[@id = 'foo']"] Nokogiri::CSS.xpath_for('#foo...
...bar:nth-of-type(2)') # => ["//*[@id = 'foo']//*[contains(concat(' ', @class, ' '), ' bar ') and position() = 2]"] Since XPath is more powerful you may still need to do some hardcore XPath hacking eventually...
If you have ... an object that defines to_hash (may well be a simple Hash instance) and pass it to a method with optional arguments and keyword arguments
...it is not set as the first optional argument. Instead, Ruby calls to_hash on the object and tries to match the result to keyword arguments. If the hash contains...
Just found out about a great feature in Rails that seems to be around since Rails 2. Start a console with the --sandbox (or -s) parameter: rails console --sandbox
...database will be rolled back on exit. Warning Changes beyond the database (deleting files, sending emails, etc) cannot be rolled back...
...you can install the official Java JRE: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre You can now check your default JVM with java -version. It should...
...versions below 10.10. If it does, please update this note. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sun-java-community-team/sun-java6 You probably want to get rid of OpenJDK (which is...
...to mix different database dumps. It also requires that the mixed tables do not share relations to other database objects. Scenario You've got two database dumps: dump_a.pgdump dump_b.pgdump
...that the selected table(s) might depend upon. Therefore, there is no guarantee that a specific-table restore into a clean database will succeed. Valid restore To archive a complete...
...take the content-box for the element's shape, i.e. without margin, padding and border. shape-outside: content-box Set the margin where you want it, e.g. 10px left and...
Set the shape-margin to the same size as the margin. Note that the shape-margin can never exceed the (rectangular) margin-box of an element! --margin: 10px;
If you have an html_safe string, you won't be able to call gsub with a block and match reference variables like $1. They will be nil inside the...
...with rails_xss) as well as Rails 3 applications. Here is a fix to SafeBuffer#gsub. Note that it will only fix the $1 behavior, not give you a safe...
If you want to see how long your database queries actually take, you need to disable MySQL's query cache. This can be done globally by logging into a database...
SET GLOBAL query_cache_type=OFF; and restart your rails server. You can also disable the cache on a per query basis by saying SELECT SQL_NO_CACHE...