While building a React Native iOS and Android application, I've gone run into a number of difficult issues. Below is a process I've come up with, which has helped solve a number of issues. I also have a series of…
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Installing fonts on Amazon Linux AMIs for PhantomJS proper rendering
PhantomJS is simultaneously a wonderful and terrible piece of software. I opted to use phantomjs over many other alternatives to create PDFs from HTML generated by a Rails 5.1 web-app. Locally, everything worked after getting through some PhantomJS quirks.…
Use Polyfills to use JavaScript ES6 features with Phantom.js
I encountered some errors recently writing JavaScript tests in Phantom.js: ReferenceError: Can't find variable: Promise. This seemed like a strange error and ultimately it turns out that phantom.js is significantly lagging behind overall browser support of JavaScript ES6…
Easy JavaScript Internationalization in Rails using the I18n-js gem
Ruby on Rails provides a well-documented and established Internationalization API for server-side localization. However, many projects I've seen forget to internationalize their front-end JavaScript framework and end up hard-coding text everywhere. For some people, this works, but for larger projects…
A Happy RSpec, Capybara and DatabaseCleaner Setup
There have been a few times where I ran into problems with RSpec Capybara feature specs and DatabaseCleaner. Spec issues arise because most Capybara JavaScript drivers run your specs on a different thread than the app. This Stack Overflow Answer…
Removing Google Analytics Referral Spam
If you use Google Analytics, especially if you have a small site, you may notice referral traffic from weird domains with 1 pageview, 0 time on site, 0 conversions and 100% bounce rate. This is garbage traffic and it comes…
Debugging Capybara Specs via Page Screenshots
Failing feature specs are difficult to debug, especially in CI. On an recent eCommerce project, our team opted to use Vue.js for several important app components and to made heavy use of feature specs to ensure everything worked as…
How to Create a Trackable link for Google Analytics
Trackable links (URLs) are critical to understanding return-on-investment for various digital marketing initiatives by providing additional information on how the visitor arrived to your site. Without trackable links, Google Analytics (or any web analytics tool) would count this visitor from…