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I’m often looking for a flexible solution for determining if I’m on the current route. I say flexible because sometimes a link is bound to a single controller, or sometimes multiple controllers, or multiple controllers with specific actions. Rails Helper Matcher Class Usage Spec Rails Helper # app/helpers/active_link_helper.rb # frozen_string_literal: true require_relative "../../lib/active_link_path" module ActiveLinkHelper...
A few years ago I had the opportunity to help build a social media platform designed to connect professionals with various connections. The idea being to index users based on companies or individuals they had previously mentioned having a connection to. While this is a problem I still don’t fully understand it was especially difficult...
I’ve recently been tasked with applying machine learning and neural networks to classify documents at my day job. Everyday while working to solve this problem I have new realizations about this field which was completely foreign to me only a few months ago. I took what is called a top-down approach, which basically means diving...
I recently had the opportunity to test an API and wanted to validate the results along with the structure of the response. When looking around on the internet for inspiration on how to solve this I was intrigued by the wonderful DSL created by Frisby. My goal was to not only test the security and...
In my last post I described how to write declarative step definitions. However, this means our test cases can’t assume it knows who is performing the action because the user can change at any time. We’ll need to introduce a sort of state machine to track the current user and log in as another user when needed....