The Capybara testing library has built-in functionality for waiting on asynchronous JavaScript (Ajax) .
For example, this works even if the content is added by Ajax:
1 2 click_link ( "Add to favorites" ) page . should have_content ( "Added to favorites" )
Behind the scenes, Capybara will retry finding the content if it's not yet present.
But if you write optimistic UIs that say "Added to favorites" immediately, and only then …
- Zerosum Dirt(nap): Easy Rails OAuth Integration Testing
- Transcending Frontiers: Guest Series: Peter Cooper - Capybara-WebKit: Bringing WebKit to your integration tests
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Multiline strings in Capybara
- Trevor Turk: Using Capybara without Cucumber in Rails 3
- Viget.com Blogs: Rails Engine Testing with RSpec, Capybara, and FactoryGirl
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Continuous Deployment with Appboy
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- braindump: Going cold turkey on physical media
- Global Nerdy: Mobile Developer News Roundup: iOS Simulator Tips and Tricks, iOS SDK for Web Designers and Who Uses Mobile Devices and QR Codes
- ZURB: Why Mark Zuckerberg Is Absolutely Right About HTML5
- Videos related to 'Ruby on Rails vs PHP - Commercial #2 of 9': Introduction to jQuery and AJAX Web Forms
- carpeaqua by Justin Williams: The Intersection Of Power And Portability
- The Real Adam: A decentralized web is hard
…Open Source projects out there that have done a lot of hard work in translating their UIs. For example Drupal has all of their translations online in easy-to-download formats. I was able to find a number of strings that I needed by going through their files.
Look at already-localized sites. This is another cheat but look for other sites that have some of the same features of your site and have already gone through the hard work of localizing into multiple languages, like Google. (In …
- John Resig: i18n Module for Node and Express.js
- New Relic: Node.js and PaaS: Changing the Development & Operations World
- Labnotes: Rounded Corners 365 — Win at Halloween
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #955
- Giles Bowkett: Rails Went Off The Rails: Why I'm Rebuilding Archaeopteryx In CoffeeScript
- Trevor Turk: Weekly Digest, 3-24-10
…swap out method implementations, you shouldn't use DI solely for testability of your APIs. And that, my friends, is really the only real point about DI being made in these posts.
To qualify the argument a little more: you should be thinking about using DI in your APIs if there are interesting compositions you want to be able to influence or substitute out—specifically large components, like databases, UIs, etc.
- CaelumObject Developers' Blog: REST and Web development: new VRaptor and Restfulie releases
- DevInterface Blog: Ruby Enumerables: Hashes
- A Fresh Cup: One- and Two-Letter Gems
- carpeaqua by Justin Williams: Think First, Code Later
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Movin' and Shakin'
- till's blog: Dependency Injection Containers
Apple's app approval process is a real hurdle for anyone who wants to do rapid development of a project. I'm used to being able to deploy fixes many times in a day if need be.
Fluid - Online editor to quickly mock up ioS or Android UIs. Safari/ Chrome only.
Firebug Tip: Break on HTML Mutation - Set JavaScript breakpoints on actions that affect the UI.
Gist.io: Writing for Hackers - Write a gist in Markdown, get a URL to see it nicely …
…screencast showing how the UI would work . We often share screencasts when designing UIs so people don't have to imagine an interaction. The fewer abstractions the better. A screencast is direct and direct is better.
"Involvements"
One of the trickier parts of the calendar UI was figuring out how to add people to an event. And did adding someone to an event mean they were notified about the event or were they responsible for the event? Here's a discussion …
- Ruby Inside: The Mega Ruby News and Release Roundup for February 2012
- Effectif Development: URL shortener for Basecamp
- casperfabricius.com: The next big thing
- Phusion Corporate Blog: Bundler and public applications
- Riding Rails - home: Rails 3.0: Release candidate!
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Thank you
…the Windows Phone 8 features that found its way into Windows Phone 7.8 .
Teehan + Lax's Mobile UI Design PSDs
If you're designing mobile device UIs with Photoshop, you'll want to get your hands on these PSDs. They're created by Toronto-based design firm Teehan + Lax , so they're quite good.
- carpeaqua by Justin Williams: Cancel Or Allow Overload
- Coding Horror: The One Button Mystique
- RubyLearning Blog: Want To Build A Mobile App On An Android™ Phone With Rhodes?
- Nick Hammond: Cloud based backup choices
- : Rhodes To Ruby
- How Software is Built: Interview with Shay David - Co-founder of Kaltura
…industry, we must take any such criticisms to heart, and honestly and critically assess what elements of it are truly an issue we should address.
The new form Augmented Paper: building better UIs for the no-keyboard devices .
Own meme lolcommits takes a snapshot every time you git commit .
"Improving" Introducing awfulness.js - tongue & cheek look at modern day practices.
Logged Everything you need to know about console logging .
Tick tock Understanding Node.js' process.nextTick .
Responsive The Boston Globe shares their experience building UIs with responsive design . And I linked to this before, but might as well, a template to get you started .
Hack away The Hacker Way . Must read.
Results Titled as advice for CEOs, but I think anyone who manages people and products should watch this .
- Lessons Learned: The Hacker Way
…Firefox in the Background - On the other hand, the dreaded " Firefox is installing your updates" progress bar should be going away soon.
localtunnel - Share your local web server over an HTTP tunnel.
Asynchronous UIs - the future of web user interfaces - Rearchitecting your application so that users don't have to wait for the request-response loop to finish.
- Invisible Blocks: Where the Abstraction Leaks: JavaScript's Fake Arrays
- jimmy.thinking: IronRuby @ RubyConf - Part 3: Sneaking Ruby to the top
- Locomotivation: Smells Like a Google Search - Easily Grab Inbound Search Terms in Rails Using search_sniffer
- duck_punching: Google-by-keyboard Firefox search plugin for Australia
- How Software is Built: Interview with Paolo Juvara - CTO - OpenBravo
- Developing with Style: From Zero to Hero: How I built Twitious in Two Weeks