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  1. Quick and easy browser testing using RSpec and Rails 5.1

    @samphippen

  2. Quick and easy browser testing using RSpec and Rails 5.1

    2 @samphippen

  3. It’s cool when rails versions get released

  4. RSpec does not yet “officially” support 5.2

  5. Literally it will work fine unless you hit this one

    weird edge case in activestorage

  6. Rails has changed

  7. I’ve changed

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  16. Let’s talk about testing

  17. Integrated Isolated Number of tests

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  22. Integrated Isolated Number of tests

  23. This used to be literally the worst

  24. Just google “rails browser testing”

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  42. It’s not an actual browser

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  46. Win.

  47. That was too much work.

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  49. This is super easy in Rails 5.1 and RSpec 3.7

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  51. Lemme show you how easy this is

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  59. Implementation

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  61. A week after railsconf last year!

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  64. Rails does the heavy lifting.

  65. Let’s talk about screenshots

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  73. Rails makes this all really easy

  74. Rails’s API lets us provide you a good user experience

  75. Aftermath

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  77. I fixed 3

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  80. “I can’t have in my green dots”

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  88. Open source is imperfect

  89. I do not get paid to work on RSpec

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  91. My cool team is here

  92. Thanks @samphippen [email protected]