Category: Programming
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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.
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Debugging CkEditor for tests
This week has been an interesting week as it was mostly debugging and fixing tests.
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Control Philips Hue with Google Assistant SDK on Ubuntu
In this article, I’m going to teach how I manage to integrate Philips Hue bridge with Google Assistant SDK to control my smart lights.
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Sometimes you have to look back when debugging
Last week has been a firefighting week at work (i.e. debugging and troubleshooting). I’m writing this article to share my experience with debugging a system configuration at work. In the end of article, I have placed some lessons learned points so hopefully someone can learn from it to improve their career.
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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) driver.action.key_down(:shift). click(element). click(second_element). key_up(:shift). drag_and_drop(element, third_element). perform The action to open the context menu is context_click() . […]
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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 audit tables which adds up a lot of space, I needed an easier way to ignore these tables when restoring the database. Apparently pg_restore can generate a […]
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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. def start_rails_server <<-SHELL cd /vagrant # start […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]