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29 Jun

Load testing a Rails app with JMeter and the authenticity_token

I have been slowly learning how to use JMeter to load test the Small Payroll application. One of the problems has been getting around the CSRF protection that Rails puts in with the authenticity_token parameter.
Each form has a hidden form element:
<div style=”margin:0;padding:0;display:inline”>
<input name=”authenticity_token” type=”hidden”
value=”16iUP1J2tdSKyvHKgYR/I/og6K7NgPPmTHCZ+idQP4k=” />
</div>
The token is also encrypted in the session so that the [...]

Posted in Ruby on Rails by: sean
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03 Sep

Shoulda, nested contexts, and should_change_by

I love some of shoulda’s macros, partially because it forces me to think about my tests and put them in setup blocks, which ends up making things cleaner.
So I ran into a case where I do an action and use should_change to make sure that a certain number of rows were added to a table, [...]

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