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webrat
Ruby2008–2010
brynary / webrat

webrat

Webrat - Ruby Acceptance Testing for Web applications

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What it is

Webrat - Ruby Acceptance Testing for Web applications

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by month2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2008-11-04 15:08:35 UTC to 2010-04-05 00:57:12 UTC.

012008-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2008-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 20082008-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2009-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2009-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2009-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2009-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2009-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2009-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2009-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2009-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2009-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2009-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2009-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2009-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2009-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2009-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2009-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJul 20092009-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2009-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2009-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2009-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2009-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2009-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2009-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2009-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2009-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 2010

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Nov 20082008-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2008-12-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Dec 20082008-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2009-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20092009-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2009-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20092009-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2009-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20092009-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2009-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20092009-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2009-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20092009-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2009-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20092009-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2009-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20092009-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2009-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20092009-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2009-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20092009-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2009-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20092009-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2009-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20092009-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2009-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20092009-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20102010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20102010-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20102010-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20102010-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-05-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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nickh·Nov 4, 2008
Great feedback guys. Thanks. I'm going to go the route of virtual machines, and give Multipe IE a shot so that I only need one Windows VM. After that, I think I'll start writing up some scripts (text, not code) to follow, step-by-step, to check various functionality. Also, webrat (http://github.com/brynary/webrat) has received a lot of commendations on the rspec-users mailing list, so I'm definitely going to give that a whirl.
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