Learn the difference about the many different types of tests in Ruby on Rails and when to use each one.

Feature Tests vs. Integration Tests vs. Unit Tests

Trying to write a Cucumer test for a Google Maps related feature is a bit trickier than you might expect. It involves tweaking the Google Map on the testing environment and using a javascript capable driver like Selelnium. Check out the article to see how you can do it.

How to write a Cucumber test for Google Maps

Every day there's a new library in the spotlight or maybe just a new version of a really popular one like Bootstrap in this case that doesn't always have a corresponding ruby gem that you can install into your app yet. So what do you do? Do you sit and wait until someone decides to write one for you?

How to install Bootstrap 4 in Rails

Helpers in rails are meant to clean up view code by allowing you to extract data processing logic from your markup code. By moving the logic out, you get an added benefit, you can test your 'view logic' easier. At least that’s the most common use case you’ll see in Rails.

Understanding and extending Rails form helpers

Did you ever needed to get the children's children of a newsted tree like structure? Well it turns out, in Rails, that stuff is pretty easy to do. You can use the awesome_nested_set gem and you're all set, everything is right there for you to use.

Nested trees with Ruby on Rails

For a long time, I've been bothered by the problem of using CSS selectors to target DOM elements in my tests (with Capybara). In this short article, I'm going to try Eduardo Gutierrez's suggestion of using data attributes for targeting DOM elements instead of CSS selectors.

Decoupling CSS Selectors From Your Tests

When you are starting out with rails testing there are so many things you need to learn about and thus it’s very hard to have a clear picture of what goes where and what’s the best way of writing unit tests and view specs and integration tests etc.

7 Steps To Better Cucumber Tests

Accessing APIs seems to be pretty straight forward, until you actually do it. There are a few gotchas that I'd like to talk about to make your experience in working with external APIs a little bit more pleasant.

What You Need to Know When Working With External APIs in Rails

Helpers in Rails are used to extract complex logic out of the view so that you can organize our code better.

The Beginner’s Guide to Rails Helpers

Even after 7 years of using Ruby on Rails I still have trouble remembering how to properly use all those options available for the link_to helper. Three out of five times I have to fire up the docs and search for the examples (cause that's how I like to read the docs).