Rails: Check Pundit authorization in RSpec

Pundit provide two helper methods to help you ensure the actions are authorized/scoped: verify_authorized and verify_policy_scoped. They are meant to be used in an after_action hook.

As the check is made after the action, I see no point of using it in production, so I use it in RSpec:

# rails_helper.rb
# ...
config.before(:suite) do
  FactoryBot.create :user, :known
  ApplicationController.send(:after_action, :verify_authorized, {except: [:index]})
  ApplicationController.send(:after_action, :verify_policy_scoped, {only: [:index]})
end
# ...

This way, it's still checked during all the tests using controllers.

Rail: sending emails via a rake task won't work if you use the_mail.deliver_later. Use the_mail.deliver, instead.

Keep in mind that .deliver will be blocking in the context of the Rails server.

I heard that finding names for projects is "the hardest thing in development, after cache invaliadation". And that's right.

"Site compare" was a bad name because of two things: it compares sites, that's true. But it does not compare sites. So that's false.

"Capyxel"? After all, that does not mean anything, but it's about Capybara and pixels. Without being too obvious. So why not?