Past few weeks, we have been focusing on updating Gems of our Rails application. There are few Gems of the Rails application that is older than 5 years. My initial focus was to update the Jasmine Gem that we use to test JavaScript. However the gem was depending on Selenium indirectly. So this caused a […]
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DynamoForms : a library to validate forms only with HTML
This article about my recent work I have done in creating a JavaScript based HTML form validation library. Recently I’ve started to work on an open source JavaScript project. Before I dive into tell you about the project, here is some background context. At my current company, we have a web application. One of the […]
Debugging CkEditor for tests
This week has been an interesting week as it was mostly debugging and fixing tests. Our rails project runs on Rails 4.2 and we are now working n moving to Rails 5 on the sideline. We use Jasmine tests for our Javascript code. We heavily utilise CkEditor as an UI interface to insert dynamic HTML […]
Control Philips Hue with Google Assistant SDK on Ubuntu
Introduction I’ve a Philips Hue bridge and a set of bulbs. On the other hand, Google has an SDK for their Google Assistant. By combining these two, I was able to create a simple Linux application that identifies your custom voice command and map those commands to control the bridge. In this guide, I will […]
Opening Right-click Menu / Context menu with Selenium WebDriver
Selenium WebDriver providesActionBuilder to perform complex user interactions with a web page. It allows chaining multiple actions together to perform a complex action. You can create a complex action and execute the action (perform) it in the following manner. (Ruby)
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<span class="id identifier rubyid_driver">driver</span><span class="period">.</span><span class="id identifier rubyid_action">action</span><span class="period">.</span><span class="id identifier rubyid_key_down">key_down</span><span class="lparen">(</span><span class="symbol">:shift</span><span class="rparen">)</span><span class="period">.</span> <span class="id identifier rubyid_click">click</span><span class="lparen">(</span><span class="id identifier rubyid_element">element</span><span class="rparen">)</span><span class="period">.</span> <span class="id identifier rubyid_click">click</span><span class="lparen">(</span><span class="id identifier rubyid_second_element">second_element</span><span class="rparen">)</span><span class="period">.</span> <span class="id identifier rubyid_key_up">key_up</span><span class="lparen">(</span><span class="symbol">:shift</span><span class="rparen">)</span><span class="period">.</span> <span class="id identifier rubyid_drag_and_drop">drag_and_drop</span><span class="lparen">(</span><span class="id identifier rubyid_element">element</span><span class="comma">,</span> <span class="id identifier rubyid_third_element">third_element</span><span class="rparen">)</span><span class="period">.</span> <span class="id identifier rubyid_perform">perform</span> |
The action to open the context menu is context_click() .
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<span class="id identifier rubyid_driver">driver</span><span class="period">.</span><span class="id identifier rubyid_action">action</span><span class="period">.</span><span class="id identifier rubyid_context_click">context_click</span><span class="lparen">(</span><span class="id identifier rubyid_el">webdriver_element</span><span class="rparen">)</span><span class="period">.</span><span class="id identifier rubyid_perform">perform</span> |
By default, it will click […]
How to ignore PostgreSQL tables when restoring a database
At my current workplace, we use a copy of the backup database which is created by pg_dump to restore in our development machines. Since the database has a lot of code>audit files which adds up a lot of space, I needed an easier way to ignore these files when restoring the database. Apparently pg_restore can generate a list of […]
Vagrant – Running Rails server in the background
Let’s say when you boot up or restart your virtual machine, you want to run the Rails server in the background for your Rails application. It is pretty easy. First, let’s create a function for the script block. Put following code on the top of the Vagrant file.
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def start_rails_server <<-SHELL cd /vagrant # start rails server as a daemon # to kill: sudo kill `cat tmp/pids/server.pid` rails s -d SHELL end |
Now in the Vagrantfile configuration block, […]
Setting up Ruby SDK for RubyMine with Vagrant
This article is about how you can configure to use the Ruby SDK in your Vagrant image with RubyMine. For this, I have used the joshfng/railsbox Vagrant image because I was using that image for a Rails project. First you have to find where is your Ruby interpreter located for your project. Let’s assume your […]
Think differently when the current tests fails
This is a lesson learned from work. SO we use Rials in our project at the workplace. SP for a new requirement, we had to have a validation for a particular attribute of a model. The requirements were specific on where the validation should happen. Say for example for what controller actions. However, the initial […]
Be careful when using loops in Jasmine specs
Your test automation code is an important tool to evaluate your application. You must ensure your test code is working/testing as you want it to be. the automated tests give confidence for the developer that the application behaves as expected and things are not broken after they change the code. Recently, at our QA phase, the […]