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Automatically Wait for AJAX with Capybara

How to use Capybara’s wait_for_ajax helper.
Gabe Berke-Williams
February 4, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
How we test Rails applications

We use RSpec feature and specs heavily, controller and view specs more judiciously, FactoryBot for test data, JavaScript integration specs with Poltergeist or Capybara Webkit, like test doubles and test spies but not test mocks, and we stub external requests with Webmock.
Josh Steiner
January 14, 2014
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
Capybara Webkit 1.1.0: Screenshots and Better ClickFailed Debugging

Capybara Webkit 1.1.0 has been released and it contains some great new...
Joe Ferris
December 12, 2013
- News
- Web
- Testing
- Capybara Webkit
Don't Stub the System Under Test

xUnit Test Patterns defines the System Under Test (SUT) as: whatever class,...
Joe Ferris
November 22, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
Faking Remote Services with Rack::Test

Using Rack middleware, we can reroute Rack::Test requests to fake remote...
Joe Ferris
November 16, 2013
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
FactoryBot for Seed Data?

Occasionally, somebody recommends or asks about using FactoryBot to generate...
Josh Clayton
November 13, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Better Tests Through Internationalization

Internationalization (i18n) is the process of adapting computer software to...
Derek Prior
October 26, 2013
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
How to Stub External Services in Tests

Requests to external services during test runs can cause several issues: ...
Harlow Ward
October 19, 2013
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
Testing Null Objects

A Null Object is a drop in replacement for one of the other objects in your...
George Brocklehurst
September 10, 2013
- Web
- Testing
Use RSpec.vim with tmux and Dispatch

(And Keep Your Screen Real Estate) As you may know, there are...
Caleb Hearth
August 12, 2013
- Web
- Vim
- Ruby
- Testing
- tmux
- Open Source
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