This is now part of geordi. Please don't follow the instructions below, if you use geordi. Inspired by the...
When you have a program running in a hidden X screen (like with Xvfb for Selenium tests) you may want...
If you're writing a spec for an application using Resque, you may need to work off queues manually without...
Note: While the solution in this card should still work, we prefer another solution now: Hide your Selenium browser window...
This finally works: User.any_instance.should_receive(...) as does User.any_instance.stub(...) Note: You won't have RSpec 2.6 if you're still working...
In order to use different encodings than ASCII for HTTP headers use the following syntax: Header-Key: Header-Value; Parameter...
Sometimes you need a file of some size (possibly for testing purposes). On Linux, you can use dd to create...
Note: Consider using MATE instead of Gnome 3 on newer system Awesome is a very good tiling window manager that...
With gem dependency it is possible to check the dependencies for your gem before you install it.
When you generate a URL in a mailer view, ActionMailer will raise an error unless you previously configured it which...
I've recently encountered a weird problem with specs making lots of SOLR queries using the acts_as_solr plugin...
If you need to parse a large XML file (> 20 MB or so), you should parse it in chunks, otherwise...
These steps are now part of Spreewald. Since Capybara 0.4.1 a within scope will only look at the first element...
The step definition below allows you to write: Then I should see a link labeled "Foo" But I should not...
When you render a nested form for a Movie which has_many :actors, you want to render the right number...
To test if you can connect to a host using password authentication and explicitly deny public key authentication:
Here is how to switch your Selenium to Chrome: Make sure you've got a recent version of chromedriver in...
If you stub a method or set expectations with should_receive these stubbed methods may also yield blocks. This is...
This is somewhat similar to the touch command of Linux: FileUtils.touch 'example.txt', :mtime => Time.now - 2.hours If you omit the :mtime...
If you need Google Chrome to run in English, and your system locale is a non-English one, you have...
When some of your Google contacts are no longer synchronized with your e-mail client or mobile phone, those contacts...
Sometimes, when running a rake task, RubyGems 1.8.5 raises an error: rake aborted! undefined method `specifications' for "/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8":String
My RubyMine (and it seems like many other Java GUI applications) crashes the Compiz window decorator almost every time on...
If you want to use a helper_method my_helper_method inside a model, you can write ApplicationController.helpers.my_helper...