Simple Notes

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Playing with Capybara

Continuing my work in Rails, this past week I worked on implementing some Feature Specs using RSpec and Capybara.

Although I've heard about Capybara (the gem) I was curious about the name. I have a problem with learning a tool without knowing why it has some weird name. Apparently a Capybara is a very large rodent. Cute yes? I really wish I had thought of that awesome name.

What I took away from working with Capybara...

- Capybara has it's own DSL.

- Learning some XPath will come in handy.

- Use helpers to clean up your code.

- Use Launchy to debug and view what Capybara is viewing.

- The save_and_open_page method will allow you to open the page in the browser. Its a rather long method name which is why I wrote it here.

EDIT: I was just notified that before Capybara there was another feature testing gem called Webrat, Capybara seems to follow the rodent theme.

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Pushing the right buttons on the wrong remote

So today I created a new repo on github, I wanted to take a local repo and push that to the new remote but misspelled the remote repo name.

In case you do the same thing, fixing it is rather simple.

Check your current repo:

git remote -v

Remove the relationship with the remote repo:

git remote rm origin

Add a new remote repo:

git remote add origin http://github.com/yourun/yourrepo.git

Push changes:

git push -u origin master