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Contributing to Capybara

Thank you for your interest in contributing to Capybara. We are building this software together and with your help it can become even better. Our time is limited though, and if you follow these guidelines, you will make it much easier for us to give feedback, help you find whatever problem you have and fix it.

Issues

If you have questions of any kind, or are unsure of how something works, please ask on the mailing list. It can take us a while to get to new issues, so a response on the mailing list will usually be quicker. Remember that Capybara has a huge test suite and is used by thousands of people. It is far more likely that there is an error in your code, and not a bug in Capybara. For our own sanity we are merciless in closing issues where we feel that you haven't shown that the issue really is within Capybara.

Please try to answer the following questions in your issue:

  • What did you do?
  • What did you expect to happen?
  • What happened instead?

If you have identified a bug you can file it at the issue tracker. It would be very helpful if you could include a way to replicate the bug. Ideally a failing test would be perfect, but even a simple script demonstrating the error would suffice. Please don't send us an entire application, unless the bug is in the interaction between Capybara and a particular framework.

Feature requests are great, but they usually end up lying around the issue tracker indefinitely. Sending a pull request is a much better way of getting a particular feature into Capybara. A good first step is to send your feature request to the mailing list and see if anyone is interested in it, and get some discussion going.

Patches

Capybara is a testing framework, as such, the requirements for patches are a bit tougher than for normal libraries. If you want your patches to be accepted, please follow the following guidelines:

  • Add tests! Your patch won't be accepted if it doesn't have tests.

  • Document any change in behaviour. Make sure the README and any other relevant documentation are kept up-to-date.

  • Consider our release cycle. We try to follow semver. Randomly breaking public APIs is not an option.

  • Create topic branches. Don't ask us to pull from your master branch.

  • One pull request per feature. If you want to do more than one thing, send multiple pull requests.

  • Send coherent history. Make sure each individual commit in your pull request is meaningful. If you had to make multiple intermediate commits while developing, please squash them before sending them to us.

  • Follow coding conventions. The standard Ruby stuff, two spaces indent, don't omit parens unless you have a good reason.

Thank you so much for contributing!