Understanding

What I Did

1. Spent most of the day trying to further understand how Rails is actually integrated with CK. Though, I’ve already finished building out the CK components for “These Numbers Matter”, I only feel confident now regarding how all the moving pieces actually work.
2. During the remainder of my time, I reasoned through what kind of specs would be sensible for “These Numbers Matter” keeping in mind that the site is a single page site, with almost no user interactions.

   What I Learned

3. XPath is a syntax for defining parts of an XML document and it uses path expressions to navigate XML documents.
4. I reviewed the possible before blocks within Capybara:
   • before(:all) runs the block a single time before all examples are run.
   • before(:each) runs the block on time before each example.
5. I’ve dug a bit deeper into what’s possible with FactoryGirl including traits.
6. Linting is the process of analyzing code to detect potential errors. Factory linting is the process of detecting potential errors by validating attributes set in the factory.
7. classify renames a given string to match the appropriate case structure of a proper class name.
8. constantize creates an actual class name from a string. Thus, constantize is often called after a classify is called on a string.
9. fetch returns a value from the hash for a given key. If no key is found, it will raise a KeyError exception unless a default value (e.g. nil) or code block is provided in the method call.