Panel:


Charles Max Wood
David Richards
Eric Berry
Dave Kimura


Special Guests: Prathamesh Sonpatki

In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks to Prathamesh Sonpatki about Rails 5. Prathamesh works for BigBinary, where they publish a lot of blog posts on things like Ruby, speaks at conferences and is the organizer of RubyConf India. They talk about the biggest changes that have occurred from the new Rails 5 release, CISM tests, and the struggle that testing brings. They also touch on different testing approaches, especially in Rails 5, Capybara tests, and more!

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:


Prathamesh intro
What have you been doing with Rails 5?
What have you been digging into with testing and features within Rails 5?
Major changes with testing scenarios
More focus on end-to-end testing
Old issues fixed
Unit testing in Rails
Refactoring on database cleaning
CISM tests
Cypress
Exploring with Cypress and issues with it
capybara-webkit
Hating testing
Mike Moore talk reference
Testing across the board integration
Using JavaScript in the front-end
End-to-end testing makes more sense in some situations
What’s your testing approach for Rails 5 applications?
Functional load tests
Capybara level tests
Service object tests
And much, much more!


Links:


BigBinary
Ruby
RubyConf India
Rails
Cypress
capybara-webkit
Prathamesh’s GitHub
@_cha1tanya
@BigBinary


Sponsors


Sentry
Digital Ocean
FreshBooks


Picks:

Charles


Writing code for fun
Notion.so
Chuck@DevChat.tv


Eric


thehotline.org
1 (800) 799-SAFE (7233)


Dave


Boundaries with Kids by Henry Cloud
RhinoRamps


Prathamesh


RubyConf India
Sign up to speak at RubyConf India
Ruby 2.6 Blogs

Special Guest: Prathamesh Sonpatki.