Ways to create test email addresses

10/28/14  Public, Tricks, Testing / TDD

1) You can add a “+” sign right after your email prefix, and then add anything after that, between the + and the @, and it will create unique test emails address. All of which will be emailed to your original address.

For example, if your emai...

1 vote - harrylevine

Applying a focus during rspec testing to test just one specific area

11/24/14  Public, Command Line, Testing / TDD

add , focus: true on the area to be tested. You can use any word here, instead of focus. (i.e. foobar)

describe "the root page", focus: true do
  visit "/"
end

Then to run the rspec on just that focussed area you type in...

1 vote - harrylevine

How to run a spec / test when there is a time latency or lag involved

10/28/14  Public, Testing / TDD, Gems

For example, if something is supposed to automatically delete every 7 days, how do you test for that?

Two ideas

  1. You can manually changed the created_at data in the database to back date an item, simulating it was created 7 days ago

...

1 vote - harrylevine

Website for testing web apps in multiple browsers

10/28/14  Public, Online Resources, Testing / TDD

http://www.browserstack.com/?utm_source=modern.ie-non-free&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ie-partnership

1 vote - harrylevine

Shortcut for finding recent things you have typed on the command line

10/28/14  Public, Command Line, Shortcuts

  • control + r
  • then start typing part of what you are looking for
  • hit enter to select what you want

1 vote - harrylevine

HTML symbol for creating one blank space

03/22/15  Public, Other Languages

 

For example, here are two spaces:

<p>Created: <%= @note.created_at.strftime("%b %d, %Y") %> &nbsp; &nbsp; Updated: <%= @note.updated_at.strftime("%b %d, %Y") %></p>

1 vote - harrylevine

Website and way to create a favicon for the browser tab

10/28/14  Public, Online Resources

Simply add this to the <head></head>section of your layouts:
<%= favicon_link_tag 'favicon.ico' %>
Place the favicon.ico image in /app/assets/images/ if you are using the asset pipeline, and in /public/images/ if you are not.
Also, ther...

1 vote - harrylevine

Sublime shortcut for inserting a line above your current location with proper indentation

10/27/14  Public, Shortcuts

On a mac:

command + shift + return

http://sublime-text-unofficial-documentation.readthedocs.org/en/latest/reference/keyboard_shortcuts_osx.html

1 vote - harrylevine

Changing a column in the database

10/25/14  Public, Databases

I only recommend doing this if you are rolling back just one migration. If there have been many migrations since the change that you want to make, be aware that there may be data issues depending on what has transpired since that migration.

I ...

1 vote - harrylevine