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Penelope Phippen
April 29, 2018
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Quick and easy browser testing using RSpec and Rails 5.1
Penelope Phippen
April 29, 2018
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Quick and easy browser testing using RSpec and Rails 5.1
@samphippen
Quick and easy browser testing using RSpec and Rails 5.1
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It’s cool when rails versions get released
RSpec does not yet “officially” support 5.2
Literally it will work fine unless you hit this one
weird edge case in activestorage
Rails has changed
I’ve changed
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Let’s talk about testing
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This used to be literally the worst
Just google “rails browser testing”
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It’s not an actual browser
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Win.
That was too much work.
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This is super easy in Rails 5.1 and RSpec 3.7
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Lemme show you how easy this is
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Implementation
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A week after railsconf last year!
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Rails does the heavy lifting.
Let’s talk about screenshots
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Rails makes this all really easy
Rails’s API lets us provide you a good user experience
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I fixed 3
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“I can’t have in my green dots”
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Open source is imperfect
I do not get paid to work on RSpec
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My cool team is here
Thanks @samphippen
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