juliocesar

Testing front-end for a Sinatra app with RSpec and Capybara

I've used Cucumber quite a bit on my last job. It's an excellent tool, and I believe readable tests are the way to the future. But I could never get around to write effective scenarios, or maintain the boatload of text that the suite becomes once you get to a point where you have decent coverage. On top of that, it didn't seem to take much for the suite to become really slow as tests were added.

A while ago I've seen a gist by Lachie Cox where he shows how to use RSpec and Capybara to do front-end tests. That sounded perfect for me. I love RSpec, I can write my own matchers when I need them with little code, and it reads damn nicely.

So for my Rails Rumble 2010 project, as usual, I rolled a Sinatra app and figured I should give the idea a shot. Below are my findings.

Gemfile

jch

# http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/11
--- 
gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc
benchmark: false
verbose: true
update_sources: true
sources: 
- http://gems.rubyforge.org/
- http://rubygems.org/
backtrace: true

phpdude

        location /resize {
                alias /tmp/nginx/resize;
                set $width 150;
                set $height 100;
                set $dimens "";

                if ($uri ~* "^/resize_(\d+)x(\d+)/(.*)" ) {
                        set $width  $1;
                        set $height $2;
                        set $image_path $3;

noonat

# Rake Quick Reference
# by Greg Houston
# http://ghouston.blogspot.com/2008/07/rake-quick-reference.html


# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Running Rake
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# running rake from the command-line:
#   rake --help

chetan

YARD CHEATSHEET http://yardoc.org

May 2020 - updated fork: https://gist.github.com/phansch/db18a595d2f5f1ef16646af72fe1fb0e

cribbed from http://pastebin.com/xgzeAmBn

Templates to remind you of the options and formatting for the different types of objects you might want to document using YARD.

Modules

henrik

tmux cheatsheet

As configured in my dotfiles.

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

jexchan

Multiple SSH Keys settings for different github account

create different public key

create different ssh key according the article Mac Set-Up Git

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[email protected]"

andreyvit

tmux cheat sheet

(C-x means ctrl+x, M-x means alt+x)

Prefix key

The default prefix is C-b. If you (or your muscle memory) prefer C-a, you need to add this to ~/.tmux.conf:

remap prefix to Control + a

MohamedAlaa

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

jstorimer

module Kernel
  def system(*args)

    rd, wr = IO.pipe

    # Create a new subprocess that will just exec the requested program.
    pid = fork do
      # The sub-process closes its copy of the reading end of the pipe
      # because it only needs to write.
      rd.close