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Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Creating Methods in Tests

Posted by Evan N
Evan N
5,097 Points

How does this test actually run?

I can read the test and understand how each section works but when I run the test from the command line what is actually happening?

I am seeing UI style tests but it's passing or failing in a short amount of time so that no browser UI tests appear to be being run. Basically I am unsure how these type of tests are being run without spinning up an actual browser or headless browser.

Thanks,

1 Answer

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

The documentation describes this feature:

Switch the backend: your tests run against from fast headless mode to an actual browser with no changes to your tests.

So I assume that by default it's headless mode. You can even install another capybara gem that returns screenshots of situations where a test did not pass to show you how the browser looked like at that point.

Evan N
Evan N
5,097 Points

Maciej Czuchnowski Perfect, thanks for looking into this. That definitely makes a lot more sense now as I had forgotten that we were working with Capybara as well :)