Rails 6 System Tests, From Top to Bottom
Selenium! Capybara! Webdriver! chromedriver! …there are a LOT of moving parts in Rails system tests. Let’s break it down, layer by layer.
What is the Ruby Legacy?
The world is changed, I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. —Galadriel
How to relax your Ruby version specification in your Gemfile
Have you ever run into this error? Your Ruby version is 2.6.1, but your Gemfile specified 2.6.3 Annoying, right? You know your Ruby version is new enough to run this…
Test-Driven Re-implementation with Josh Thompson
Yesterday Josh Thompson, one of my Rubber Duck Session clients, proposed a novel idea for deliberately practicing coding skills: take a popular open-source project with a good test suite, delete…
Faking Method Inputs with OpenStruct feat. Kerri Miller
During my RubyTapas script review with upcoming guest chef Kerri Miller, we spent some time refactoring a method toward lower complexity. In the process we needed to isolate it from…
Enough With the Service Objects Already
A critique of the emerging advice to encapsulate business domain actions in “Service Objects”.
Riffing on `interpose` implementations in Ruby
Implementing a new Ruby Enumerable method turns into an exploration of refinements, enumerators, RSpec block testing, & more…
Preserving session with Mechanize
A write-up of a tricky aspect of saving Mechanize agent cookies.