Capybara
SailsJS
Capybara | SailsJS | |
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21 | 41 | |
9,971 | 22,779 | |
0.3% | 0.0% | |
7.9 | 6.7 | |
about 1 month ago | 6 days ago | |
Ruby | JavaScript | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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Capybara
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16 Best Ruby Frameworks For Web Development [2024]
Cuba takes help from a lot of other technologies to bring the best of everything. For example, the responses in Cuba are the optimized version of the Rack responses. The templates are integrated via Tilt and testing via Cutest and Capybara.
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🩰 Scheduling automated tests
I am going to use a browser based testing tool called Playwright (But you could use Capybara, or Selenium WebDriver etc.).
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Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails
Even as a much smaller team, building Heii On-Call [0] as a lightweight alerting/monitoring/on-call rotations SaaS based on Ruby on Rails has basically been a pleasure!
And as the article highlights, perhaps the key reason for smooth deployments and upgrades is that the CI testing story is so, so good: RSpec [1] plus Capybara [2] for us. That means we have decently extensive tests of just about all behavior. The few small Rails and Ruby upgrades we've done have gone quite smoothly and confidently, with usually just a few non-Rails gem dependencies needing to be manually updated as well.
The "microservices" story is where we've pulled in the Crystal programming language [3] to great effect. After dabbling with Go and Rust, we've found that Crystal is truly a breath of fresh air. Crystal powers the parts of Heii On-Call that need to be fast and low-RAM, specifically the inbound API https://api.heiioncall.com/ and the outbound HTTP(S) prober background processes. I've ported some shared utility classes from Ruby to Crystal almost completely by just copy-and-pasting ___.rb to ___.cr; porting the tests for those classes was far more onerous than porting the class code itself. (Perhaps another point of evidence toward the superiority of RoR's testing story...)
The front-end story is nice but just a bit weaker. Using Hotwire / Turbo successfully, but I have an open PR to fix a fairly obvious stale cache bug in Turbo [4] that has been sitting unloved for nearly a month, despite other users reporting the same issue. I'm hopeful that it will get merged in the next release, but definitely less active than the backend side.
For me, the key conclusion is that the excellent Ruby on Rails testing story is what enables everything to go a lot more smoothly and have such a strong foundation. I'd be curious if any GitHubbers can talk more about whether they too are using Rspec+Capybara or something else? Are there internal guidelines for test coverage?
[0] https://heiioncall.com/
[1] https://rspec.info/
[2] https://github.com/teamcapybara/capybara
[3] https://crystal-lang.org/
[4] https://github.com/hotwired/turbo/pull/895
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Using Capybara to test responsive code
Engineering at Aha! focuses on using and improving the Capybara test framework. We have added many helpers and additional functionality to make working with Capybara easy. Testing at mobile widths is another chance to improve our testing tooling. Here is the incremental approach that we used to add mobile testing helpers.
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Minitest vs. RSpec in Rails
Since the Capybara library drives the underlying tests, Minitest also has the same syntax.
- Is it a common practice to test JS code in a browser instead of Node.js?
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Testing Strategies For Microservices
We can write component tests with any language or framework, but the most popular ones are probably Cucumber and Capybara.
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From partials to ViewComponents: writing reusable front-end code in Rails
The nice thing about partial templates is that templates are unit-testable with View specs (or similarly in Minitest) and the rendered output can even be verified using Capybara matchers.
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Tip: if you're changing all your form_for to form_with, take the opportunity to make sure all forms are being tested.
To piggyback: This would be a type of browser test, so you would want to use something like Cypress (https://github.com/testdouble/cypress-rails) or Capybara (https://github.com/teamcapybara/capybara). RSpec has a good integration with Capybara. Cypress is JS-based so it will require some additional config.
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Validating Views with Capybara Queries
When you write a system test (or, as we prefer, a system spec) with Ruby on Rails, you're exercising the whole stack from the point of view of the user. So, naturally, you have to do things like make sure that certain elements are on the page and work as you expect when you click on then, type in them, and drag them around. Capybara works exceedingly well for this, giving you a lovely API for querying HTML.
SailsJS
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Choosing the best JavaScript framework for your next project
Sails is a realtime JavaScript framework built on top of Express. Sails offers built-in realtime communication support and a flexible routing system.
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Best NodeJS frameworks for seamless backend development
Community stats: Sails GitHub repository has an active community with 22.78k stars and 2k forks. They also have a YouTube channel with a library of useful tutorial videos.
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The Ascent of Node.js: How a runtime changed the Web
Sails.js: Sails.js pitched itself as the MVC framework for Node.js, bringing a Rails-like experience while being database agnostic.
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WebSockets 101
Disclaimer: I didn't know much about Websockets 1 week ago, all the experience I had with Websockets was when I developed a chat application back in 2016 using a JS framework that tried to be a Ruby on Rails implementation called SailsJS, so I decided to research about this technology and consumed multiple resources which I will link in this blog post and each section.
- Learning NodeJS - So far, I don't quite like it so much
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Advice on promoting and pitching Rails
Perhaps Sails.js. They mention RoR. An Angular teacher used it to create a fast API.
- Does node have a Rails-like framework? (that has isn't dead)
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Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails
I was just talking about this topic of whether we really has any Rails-influenced JS frameworks out there in the wild. And I struggled to come up with anything off the top of my head other than Sails.js [1]. RedwoodJS looks interesting, what about it in particular do you find exciting?
[1] https://github.com/balderdashy/sails
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Node JS Microservice Frameworks for Developing Scalable Web Apps.
Sails JS – The MVC framework for Node.js
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College Student -- First steps, help?
First hurdle. ExpressJS isn't a great framework on it's own for building web sites. You need to cobble together some combination of a view engine, templating etc otherwise out of the box you'll end up handcrafting HTML which I don't think is what you want right now. I'm not up on the latest server-side web frameworks and don't think now is the time to get into react + nodejs. So I'll just suggest Sails: https://sailsjs.com/. Follow their intro guides to get yourself a basic website with text entry.
What are some alternatives?
Playwright - Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
Nest - A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, scalable, and enterprise-grade server-side applications with TypeScript/JavaScript 🚀
Aruba - Test command-line applications with Cucumber-Ruby, RSpec or Minitest.
Next.js - The React Framework
shoulda-matchers - Simple one-liner tests for common Rails functionality
AdonisJs Framework - AdonisJS is a TypeScript-first web framework for building web apps and API servers. It comes with support for testing, modern tooling, an ecosystem of official packages, and more.
Emoji-RSpec - Custom Emoji Formatters for RSpec
feathers - The API and real-time application framework
Cucumber - A home for issues that are common to multiple cucumber repositories
loopback-next - LoopBack makes it easy to build modern API applications that require complex integrations.
Bacon - a small RSpec clone
Nuxt.js - Nuxt is an intuitive and extendable way to create type-safe, performant and production-grade full-stack web apps and websites with Vue 3. [Moved to: https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt]