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Migrating from feature specs to system specs

Rails supports writing Capybara tests out of the box since the 5.1 release in the form of system tests. This means you no longer need to configure database cleaning strategies or have webdriver configuration files with hard-to-understand configuration settings. This article explores how to migrate Feature specs in an existing Rails app to the default System specs.
Trésor Bireke
May 29, 2024
Configure GitHub Actions to work with rspec-rails

The next release of Rails will ship with a CI template that will “work out of the box”… unless you’re using RSpec.
Steve Polito
March 25, 2024
- RSpec
- Web
- CI
- GitHub Actions
- Ruby On Rails
Multi-thread Backtrace for Silently Hanging Tests

Tests hanging with no feedback on how to solve the problem? Try this!
Aji Slater
September 20, 2023
- RSpec
- Minitest
- Debugging
A journey towards better Ruby on Rails testing practices

Testing Ruby on Rails and avoiding RSpec and FactoryBot anti-patterns.
Rémy Hannequin
March 14, 2023
- Testing
- Ruby
- Development
- Factory
- Ruby On Rails
- RSpec
- Factory Bot
Stubbles - Stubbing and Doubles innit. 🧔

Confession: I’ve always struggled to understand the difference between stubbing and doubles…
Sami Birnbaum
March 10, 2023
- Testing
- RSpec
- Ruby
How to stub Feature Flags with RSpec

Are your feature flags states leaking between your test cases? Stub them all to make your test suite more reliable. Here’s how.
Stefanni Brasil and Elias Rodrigues
February 3, 2023
- Testing
- RSpec
- Rails
- Web
Avoid Merging RSpec "Focused" Tests

Use RSpec’s Focus filter without fear of accidentally turning CI into a single-test false positive.
Stephanie Viccari
February 2, 2023
- RSpec
- Testing
factory_bot

factory_girl is becoming factory_bot.
Avielle Wolfe and Josh Clayton
October 24, 2017
- News
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
- RSpec
- Ruby
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Chain RSpec Matchers for Improved Test Readability

Improve test readability by leveraging RSpec’s matcher composition to make multiple assertions with a single matcher.
Josh Clayton
March 9, 2017
- Web
- RSpec
- Ruby
- Rails
- Testing
Testing and Environment Variables in Ruby

Learn how to test code using data in environment variables with Climate Control.
Josh Clayton
December 3, 2014
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
- Testing
- RSpec
- CI
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