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06/16/20 Public, Rails Errors, Ruby General

timing = Benchmark.measure { Post.all }

The various attributes of the object returned (Benchmark::Tms) are provided here.

Here is a sample applicati...

1 vote - harrylevine

Can call multiple `expects` in an `it` block without stopping on failure

11/30/17 Public, Testing / TDD

By adding :aggregate_failures to the end of anit statement, you can call multiple expects in that it block, and if any of them fail, the tests keep testing.

For example, in the this spec, if expect(Post.count).to eq 4 fails, the test ...

1 vote - harrylevine

How to open a link in the same new named tab, every time

11/14/17 Public, Tricks, Other Languages

When you want a link to open up in a new tab, you simply set the target to _blank:

<a href="http://www.starfall.com/" target="_blank">Starfall</a>

But what if you have an index view containing all your Posts, and you want...

1 vote - harrylevine

Set up a Ruby project with RSpec

01/30/19 Public, Testing / TDD, Ruby General

1. First make sure you have `rspec` and `byebug` installed:

➜  byebug -v
  Running byebug 9.1.0
➜  rspec -v
RSpec 3.6
  - rspec-core 3.6.0
  - rspec-expectations 3.6.0
  - rspec-mocks 3.6.0
  - rspec-rails 3.6.1
  - rspec-supp...

1 vote - harrylevine

Disabling and re-enabling a rubocop rule for a specific set of code

11/07/17 Public, Testing / TDD

For example, if this rule is in your .rubocop.yml file:

Style/RedundantSelf:
  Description: Don't use self where it's not needed.
  StyleGuide: https://github.com/bbatsov/ruby-style-guide#no-self-unless-required
  Enabled: true
`...

1 vote - harrylevine

Checking for rubocop offenses in a given file

11/07/17 Public, Testing / TDD

You can check what is/is not passing rubocop for a given file by calling:

rubocop app/whatever/whatever/my_file.rb

You can get even more output by passing it the -D flag, which adds the actual name of the cop.

rub...

1 vote - harrylevine

When making API call In postman, how to pass a JSON string

11/07/17 Public, Online Resources, Other Languages

after selecting POST
click the Body tab
click the raw radio button
select the JSON option from the drop-down
add the JSON code

1 vote - harrylevine

Favor everything on HEAD in a Git merge conflict

09/28/17 Public, Git

Let's say that you are rebasing your current branch on master, and you run into merge conflicts. For example with a blog.rb file. If you have a situation where you might be inclined to fix it by: