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Modern Front-End Development for Rails, 2nd Edition
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Modern Front-End Development for Rails, 2nd Edition

by Noel Rappin
September 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
410 pages
10h 7m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Configuring Cypress and Rails

We need to manage a couple of Rails-specific setup issues before we can write the first test. (Sorry about all this setup. Honestly, Cypress is easier in this respect than some of the other testing tools.) Specifically, we need to have the cypress-rails gem start its own instance of a Rails server that points to our test database rather than our development database, and we need to seed that server with data.

Because Cypress is not really part of the Rails system, it doesn’t automatically start up any Rails-specific process, which is where the cypress-rails gem comes in. The cypress-rails gem automatically starts up a Rails server at a port that we determine. We’ll use an environment variable to specify the number ...

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