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The difference between RSpec, Capybara and Cucumber

The difference between RSpec, Capybara and Cucumber RSpecRSpec is a testing framework. It’s what allows you to write and run your tests.An analogous tool would be MiniTest. In my experience, most commercial Rails projects use RSpec and most open-source Ruby projects use MiniTest. At any Rails job y...

How I test JavaScript-heavy Rails applications

How I test JavaScript-heavy Rails applications I think of the fact that the application uses JavaScript like an inconsequential and irrelevant implementation detail. I test JavaScript-heavy applications using just RSpec Capybara integration tests, the same exact way I’d test an application t...

Rails ActionCable: The good and the bad for developers

Rails ActionCable: The good and the bad for developers Rails 5 has recently introduced WebSocket support via ActionCable. It’s a great move towards realtime for the Rails community, however I think developers need to understand its strengths and weaknesses before rolling it out into production environ...

Rails to Introduce View Components

Rails to Introduce View Components While I'm waiting for tests to pass on my latest PR, I decided to catch up on my inbox. I subscribe to a Ruby newsletter, and I saw this interesting headline: Introducing ActionView::Component: View Components Are Coming to Rails? That had a link ...

How to Setup a Readonly Rails Console

How to Setup a Readonly Rails Console In an effort to better protect our production data, last year we choose to setup a readonly production console. This allows developers to poke around production data without having to worry that they might accidentally change something they should...

TestUnit - Writing Test Code In Ruby (1/3)

TestUnit - Writing Test Code In Ruby (1/3) I'm training my juniors on how to write test code since we need to improve our code coverage in ExamPro. I had quickly put together three guides last Sunday on TestUnit, MiniTest and RSpec. Why all three? I believe that learning by variation resul...

Stimulus and RxJS for an SPA Like Experience

Stimulus and RxJS for an SPA Like Experience I really enjoy using Stimulus as a lightweight Javascript framework. With only a handful of attributes in your HTML and a few lines of Javascript, it’s possible to create some fairly advanced UI interactions. Lately, I’ve been combining Stimulus w...

Redis client side partitioning in Ruby

Redis client side partitioning in Ruby Partitioning (also known as sharding) is the process of taking the dataset that would originally be held in a single Redis server and splitting it over multiple Redis servers. Partitioning allows you to distribute writes/reads over a set of nodes ...

Ruby gem to video record your computer screen

Ruby gem to video record your computer screen A Ruby gem to video record your computer screen - desktop or specific window - using FFmpeg. Primarily geared towards recording automated UI test executions for debugging and documentation.Demo - https://kapoorlakshya.github.io/introducing-screen-...

Rodauth: Why Rodauth?

Rodauth: Why Rodauth? Rodauth ships in a maximum security by default configuration. The default and recommended way to use Rodauth is with multiple database accounts and using database functions for authentication, in order to protect access to password hashes from att...

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