davepoirier

• You MUST NOT try and generate a Rails app from scratch on your own by generating each file. For a NEW app you MUST use rails new first to generate all of the boilerplate files necessary.
• Create an app in the current directory with rails new .
• Use Tailwind CSS for styling. Use --css tailwind as an option on the rails new call to do this automatically.
• Use Ruby 3.2+ and Rails 8.0+ practices.
• Use the default Minitest approach for testing, do not use RSpec.
• Default to using SQLite in development. rails new will do this automatically but take care if you write any custom SQL that it is SQLite compatible.
• An app can be built with a devcontainer such as rails new myapp --devcontainer but only do this if requested directly.
• Rails apps have a lot of directories to consider, such as app, config, db, etc.
• Adhere to MVC conventions: singular model names (e.g., Product) map to plural tables (products); controllers are plural.
• Guard against incapable browsers accessing controllers with `allo

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# RSpec 2.0 syntax Cheet Sheet by http://ApproachE.com

# defining spec within a module will automatically pick Player::MovieList as a 'subject' (see below)
module Player
	describe MovieList, "with optional description" do
		  
	  it "is pending example, so that you can write ones quickly"
	  
	  it "is already working example that we want to suspend from failing temporarily" do
		pending("working on another feature that temporarily breaks this one")

davepoirier

# This will guess the User class
Factory.define :user do
  first_name 'John'
  last_name  'Doe'
  admin false
end

# This will use the User class (Admin would have been guessed)
Factory.define :admin, :class => User do |u|

davepoirier

=Navigating=
    visit('/projects')
    visit(post_comments_path(post))

=Clicking links and buttons=
    click_link('id-of-link')
    click_link('Link Text')
    click_button('Save')
    click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button
    click('Button Value')

davepoirier

Capybara Cheat Sheet

Navigating

  visit('/projects')
  visit(post_comments_path(post))