Using RSpec to test meta descriptions

A little code snippet to show you how to test meta descriptions in RSpec

Nov 2019
83 words
Ruby

How I went about testing the meta description on a view:

within('head', visible: false) do
  expect(page).to have_css("meta[name=description][content='The meta description for my webpage.']")
end

Something which helped me out a lot was using puts page.source in my test, this puts the HTML of the page out in my terminal so I could see exactly what was being put out.

Setting a more specific database type in Prisma

Prisma sets a default of TEXT for all String fields, here is how you can override that.

May 2025

Ruby

Override database attribute types

Sometimes you don't have control over how your database handles information, so you need Rails to set it