psahni

require 'spec_helper'

feature "Editing tickets" do
  let!(:project) { Factory(:project) }
  let!(:ticket) { Factory(:ticket, :project => project) }

  before do
    visit '/'
    click_link project.name
    click_link ticket.title

larskanis

require 'active_record'

ActiveRecord::Base.configurations['my_connect'] = {:adapter=>'sqlite3', :database=>'fixture_database.sqlite3'}

class Car < ActiveRecord::Base
  establish_connection 'my_connect'
  has_many :tyres
end

class Tyre < ActiveRecord::Base

thermistor

namespace :assets do

  desc "Check that all assets have valid encoding"
  task  :check => :environment do

    paths = ["app/assets", "lib/assets", "vendor/assets"]
    extensions = ["js", "coffee", "css", "scss"]

    paths.each do |path|
      dir_path = Rails.root + path

jcasimir

Sessions and Conversations

HTTP is a stateless protocol. Sessions allow us to chain multiple requests together into a conversation between client and server.

Sessions should be an option of last resort. If there's no where else that the data can possibly go to achieve the desired functionality, only then should it be stored in the session. Sessions can be vulnerable to security threats from third parties, malicious users, and can cause scaling problems.

That doesn't mean we can't use sessions, but we should only use them where necessary.

Adding, Accessing, and Removing Data

tsnow

We needed a better example for http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6267059/make-all-actionviewer-helper-methods-available-in-a-module/6271730#6271730

Other Resources on using helpers outside of ActionView:

http://drawohara.com/post/24582894/rails-un-suckass-ing-actionview-helpers-in-the-name

The other approach to this task is to use helpers for just the view oriented portions, and Presenters which are tied to them heavily. http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2007/10/my-version-of-rails-presenters.html http://blog.new-bamboo.co.uk/2007/8/31/presenters-conductors-on-rails

zhengjia

=Navigating=
    visit('/projects')
    visit(post_comments_path(post))

=Clicking links and buttons=
    click_link('id-of-link')
    click_link('Link Text')
    click_button('Save')
    click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button
    click('Button Value')