Hitting the middle ground between classicist and mockist TDD
From Martin Fowler’s point of view, I must have been a mockist. With using mocks extensively comes quite a few advantages :
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Display full backtraces in rspec
I use rspec a lot. I thinks it’s a great testing framework.
Don’t repeat names in cucumber scenarios
Update 06/12/2014: I created a gem for this and other things
If new cucumber transform breaks everyhing …
After reading The cucumber book I decided to add clever cucumber transforms but steps started to fail all over the place … Even completly unrelated scenarios...
Rubular: a really usefull ruby regex tool
Working with regular expressions is always a try and fail and retry … experience. It really helps to have an interactive tool with which to tune up your expr...
How to evaluate an xpath in chrome ?
According to stack overflow, simply use something like the following from the chrome console : $x("//img")
How to stub around a call to the original method with rspec ?
Update 05/23/2014: I created a gem for this, read an introduction here
#1 rule for monitoring emails
I just spent a few hours debugging my rails app on Heroku to understand why the hell I did not systematically receive the monitoring emails that my app was s...