Teaching RSpec to Play nice with Rails

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RSpec Rails integration shows which tests fail and why: real bugs get reduced to a concrete commit, a failing reproduction app, or an interaction with the extracted rails-controller-testing gem that breaks view specs and path helpers. Debugging uses git bisect across thousands of revisions, targeted Rails patches, long explanatory commit messages, and PRs that change initialization order. Several fixes land in Rails itself; Rails 5.1 system test integration remains unimplemented and RSpec 3.6.0 is the compatibility target.

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1. 0:00Introduction and recovery
2. 2:33RSpec and Rails 5.1
3. 4:25RSpec architecture
4. 6:20RSpec rails integration
5. 8:21Fixing controller tests
6. 13:18Debugging Rails bugs
7. 19:23Lazy initialization issues
8. 23:05Open source maintenance

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