Dec 17, 2025 · 1 min read · You may have faced this issue where { key: false } was treated as { “key”: “false” } when writing request specs in rails application development. Request params need to be passed as json along with content-type header in order for the Rails API to ca...
Join discussionNov 25, 2025 · 1 min read · I recently updated from Slim template to ERB to use Herb (Thanks Marco). I had to update a test that was very strict on the format. I realized that Capybara::Node::Simple doesn’t provide a selector for regex. The page object doesn’t have a match? met...
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Nov 6, 2025 · 4 min read · This is not a new topic; various resources have addressed it in different ways. Here are my reasons and explanations for why I prefer not to use 'let!' in RSpec. When I work on a project that uses RSpec, I prefer not to use let!. Instead, I call the ...
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Jun 10, 2025 · 10 min read · The PTSD of Long-Running Test Suites In a previous life, I found myself staring at my terminal, watching a test suite crawl through its execution. Forty minutes. That's how long it took to run the entire test suite. Forty minutes of waiting, hoping t...
Join discussionMar 28, 2025 · 2 min read · One of the hardest parts of debugging and fixing flaky RSpec tests is reproducing the failure reliably, or even reproducing it at all. Several years ago, an experiment at my company produced the marsh_grass gem. This gem provides several tools for de...
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Dec 30, 2024 · 4 min read · Testing financial applications requires exceptional attention to detail and robust test coverage. In this article, we'll explore advanced testing patterns for financial operations using a real-world Rails application. We'll cover transaction testing,...
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Dec 23, 2024 · 4 min read · I mentioned in a previous post that in the project I am currently working on we do not use Rails in most of the applications. There are some exceptions in certain legacy applications that represent the core of the project, from which we have been pro...
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Oct 5, 2024 · 12 min read · At Zero Config Rails, I (Prabin) am constantly working on automating configurations and boring setups like “Setup RSpec Tests in Rails with Gitlab CI”. CI integrations helps in improving the code quality in projects. It can help in automating code re...
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May 3, 2024 · 3 min read · RSpec is a test framework for ruby that has grown in popularity and for good reason. Users of Ruby have an option of picking an equally capable framework called minitest that ships with rails by default. So why pick Rspec: It reads like plain Englis...
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