PludoniRspec

pludoni GmbH's RSpec helper for modern Rails apps (+5.1, RSpec > 3.5)

Just include in your spec_helper / rails_helper

ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= 'test'

require 'pludoni_rspec'
PludoniRspec.run
load 'spec/fabricators.rb'

What's done:

  • Maintain Test Schema
  • spec/support/**.rb will be loaded for overriding
  • freeze_time: '' Tag for examples. If Timecop is available, this will be used, otherwise Rails 5.x default travel_to
  • Simplecov coverage started at beginning
  • Capybara+Chromedriver config with Chromedriver, Headless (will probably not work on OSX though)

    • Available Helper:
    • console_logs
    • drop_in_dropzone(file_path)
    • screenshot
    • skip_confirm(page)
    • in_browser('user_1') do ... end
  • Rspec configs:

    • tmp/rspec.failed.txt to enable --next-failure / --only-failures switches
    • clears ActionMailer deliveries before each scenario
    • default backtrace without rails, fabication, grape, rack
    • fixtures in spec/fixtures
    • Transactional Fixtures enabled - no DatabaseCleaner needed anymore
  • VCR Config sensible VCR is available (not required by Gem)

  • executable: nf and of

    • nf -> rspec --next-failure
    • of -> rspec --only-failures
  • Shared Contexts that can be included on demand:

    • include_context 'mails' - For working with ActionMailer::Base.deliveries
    • mails_with(to: '') - Filter mails sent to a user
    • last_mail == ActionMailer::Base.deliveries.last
    • mails == ActionMailer::Base.deliveries
    • extract_link_from(last_mail, link: 0) - gets you the link (without protocol + host) of the first link in the last mail with a html body
    • include_context 'active_job_inline'
    • all ActiveJobs will be run immediately in this group