Modern Front-End Development for Rails

Cypress Utilities and API

Cypress also has a command-line tool that allows you to run Cypress from a terminal or from a command line in a continuous integration tool. In our environment, we start that tool with rake cypress:run. Doing so will run the tests against the Electron JS run time by default. If you run this command, you’ll get output directly in your terminal. You’ll get a line for each individual test with a time amount (for example, ✓ marks a group of tickets sold on click (487ms)), you’ll get a summary table for each file, and you’ll get a final summary table that gives the time and test count for each file.

You will also get files in tmp/cypress_videos, one for each test file, that show a video capture of the browser for each test ...