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Standup 06/28/2007

edit Posted by Chad Woolley on Thursday July 05, 2007 at 09:25PM

You can do single key presses in selenium with key-press. This is very useful in some scenarios - for example, predictive typing in search fields.

edit Posted by Chad Woolley on Thursday July 05, 2007 at 09:23PM

Don't forget about the 'net' tab in the FireBug firefox extension. This can take the place of other separate plugins such as Live HTTP Headers.

edit Posted by Chad Woolley on Thursday July 05, 2007 at 09:19PM

RSpec global before/after: In addition to Behaviour-scoped before and after method forms, Rspec also has global prepend_before, prepend_after, append_before, append_after methods.
RSpec Custom Expectation Matchers: Remember that you can write your own Custom Expectation Matchers to make your specs as expressive as desired. For example: foo.should contain_text.
Self-Signed SSL Cert Gotcha: Firefox and IE hate it when your Certificate Authority and Server Certificate have the same Common Name.
RailMail: RailMail "gives you a persisted view of any mail your application has sent... With railmail there is no need to set up testing email accounts while developing your application; just send out mail to any address and Railmail will capture it." Nice...
validates_presence_of in ActiveRecord calls blank?. This means you can use it check for dependent objects if you define blank?.