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Audit of everything a 2.0.0 final would ship, and the fixes that did not need lib/ changes. CHANGELOG - A v2.0.0 entry written for someone upgrading from 1.15.1, not a diff of the betas. What to change (the version), what they will see (exact warning text), the five things that can actually break, and what 2.1 removes. Every claim verified against a real install; the beta sections stay as history. Version consistency - README, docs/UPGRADING.md: no more "beta"/"alpha"/"experiment" framing and no beta pins. Gemfile examples say `~> 2.0`. - Gem name: `capybara-screenshot-diff` is the one we tell people to install; `snap_diff-capybara` is a reserved identical mirror. Stated once in the README with the dual-install consequence, applied everywhere else. - Stale "3.0" references in the Rakefile and docs/architecture.md are now 2.1 (#247 fixed the user docs and missed these). Corrections to claims that were not true - docs/drivers.md promised that everything 2.1 removes "warns once per process naming 2.1". `driver: :auto` is silent whenever ruby-vips is present, and the `driver:` setting itself never warns at all even though 2.1 deletes it (`NoMethodError`). Both are now written down as silent, in drivers.md and UPGRADING.md, since a note is the only notice they can get. - README called ruby-vips "Optional". With neither ruby-vips nor chunky_png installed, comparisons raise `Wrong adapter nil. Available adapters: []`. Says so now. - Setup examples no longer teach `driver: :vips`, a line users have to delete for 2.1. Gem hygiene - gemspec: summary/description that describe what the gem does, the rubygems metadata links (source, changelog, bug tracker, docs), and docs/docker-testing.md dropped from the package (it documents bin/dtest, which is not packaged). Dead bindir/executables removed -- the allow-list never matched exe/. - README's links to CONTRIBUTING.md and docker-testing.md are absolute, so they resolve from inside the gem too. - test/unit/gemspec_packaging_test.rb pins the packaged file list: both Bundler.require entry files present (this broke twice), consumer docs in, contributor docs and build files out, capybara the only runtime dependency. Verified it fails when an entry file is unpackaged. - *.gem is gitignored. Release process - The GitHub Release body linked to blob/main on a repo whose default branch is master -- 404 on every release so far. Links to the tag now. - docs/RELEASE_PREP.md was a stale v1.15.1 checklist. It is now a runbook for how releases actually happen: what the workflow does step by step, the trusted-publisher prerequisite for BOTH gem names, prereleases, post-release verification, and what to do when a run fails halfway. - CONTRIBUTING.md pointed at the wrong version.rb and recommended `rake release`, which publishes only one of the two gem names. Verified with real installs on ruby 4.0.6: 1.15.1 -> this master via path:, a canonical-names setup, `Bundler.require` under each gem name from the built .gem, and the dual-install guard with both gems installed. No lib/ changes. Version not bumped.
…ot every error it raises
docs/snapdiff.md's object map said "Base class for every error this gem
raises". It is not: a missing image backend raises a bare RuntimeError
("Wrong adapter nil. Available adapters: []", reproduced on a bundle with
neither ruby-vips nor chunky_png) and StableScreenshoter raises
ArgumentError. Verified the four defined errors -- ExpectationNotMet,
UnstableImage, WindowSizeMismatchError, DualInstallError -- do all inherit
SnapDiff::Error, so the useful half of the promise holds and is now the
one being made.
…e tag push Branch protection rules do not govern tag pushes; tag protection rules (or rulesets) do. The runbook prerequisite now names the right control.
…tting dies loudly Both were lumped together as "raises NoMethodError on 2.1". Only the config setting does. Per-screenshot options are a free-form hash, so on 2.1 `screenshot "index", driver: :vips` is inert and nothing tells you the line is dead -- #249's own upgrade note spells out the split. Grep-for-it advice added, since that is the only signal a user gets.
Second pass, from customer-persona findings. Each verified here before acting; two of the four reported items turned out to be artifacts of the PUBLISHED beta3 rather than of master, and are handled as such. Baselines (the oldest bug in the tracker: #5 and #6 in 2018, #133 in 2024) - README told users to "delete the baseline and re-run" in two places. It cannot work. `Vcs.checkout_vcs` (lib/snap_diff/vcs.rb:24) resolves every baseline with `git show HEAD:<path>`, and `ScreenshotMatcher#check_base_screenshot` calls it before `need_to_compare?` tests `base_path.exist?` -- so a committed baseline is fetched from HEAD no matter what the working tree says, and `rm` changes nothing. - New first-class "Accepting an intentional change" section: the mechanism, the commit that actually accepts it, and the surprising part -- staging is not enough, so no local run goes green until you commit. The FAQ answer now says the same thing instead of the opposite. - Deliberately does NOT document RECORD_SCREENSHOTS. It is printed by our own error message (screenshot_matcher.rb:73) but read nowhere in lib/; a separate lane is implementing it, and it should be documented once it works, not before. Version pinning - `gem "snap_diff-capybara"` unpinned installs 0.0.1 -- a placeholder whose entire payload is one README and zero Ruby files (verified by fetching and unpacking it), so the user gets an immediate LoadError. And unpinned `gem "capybara-screenshot-diff"` resolves to 1.15.1, not to the 2.0 the surrounding prose is selling. Every install instruction now pins, and the README says plainly that the mirror name is not the one to reach for. CHANGELOG, all verified - Failure messages leaked a libvips pointer struct via the comparison metadata; `to_h` excludes `diff_mask` since #234, which landed after the beta3 tag, so 2.0.0 final is the fix. - Known limitation: fork-parallel runs write no HTML report. Workers accumulate assertions per process; the report is written from `Minitest.after_run` in the parent (integrations/minitest.rb:69), which never sees them. Artifacts and pass/fail are unaffected. - A note for anyone sitting on a prerelease: beta3's deprecation channel was incomplete, so its silence is not evidence of being migrated. Constants - `Capybara::Screenshot::Os` -> `SnapDiff::Os` was in no rename table. Gemspec - rubygems_mfa_required. The four URI fields were added in the first commit.
Two customer personas independently followed the docs and got a green bar on a page they had deliberately broken. `rake test` does not run `test/system/` in a Rails app. The Quick Start told users to run it, so step 1 produced `0 runs` and no baselines -- which reads as a pass. The example is a Rails system test; the command now matches it, with a callout, because "0 runs" is the single easiest way to believe visual testing is working when nothing is running. `RECORD_SCREENSHOTS=1` appeared in three user-facing docs for a feature that has never existed in `lib/` -- it is this repository's own test-suite convention, read by `test/test_helper.rb`. The user-facing copies are replaced with the flow that actually works: run the suite, which rewrites every changed baseline in place, then `git add` and commit. The contributor page keeps it and now says plainly that it is not a library feature.
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A reviewer built a stock Rails 8.1 app, ran the documented Quick Start end to end, and none of it worked. Fixes, each verified against a scratch app or against lib/: - `gem "capybara-screenshot-diff", "~> 2.0"` does not resolve. rubygems has 1.15.1 and 2.0.0.alpha1..beta3 and no final 2.x, and Bundler never picks a prerelease from a plain requirement, so `bundle install` fails with `Could not find gem 'capybara-screenshot-diff (~> 2.0)'`. All five install snippets now pin `2.0.0.beta3` and say why. RELEASE_PREP gains the step that swaps them back to `~> 2.0` as part of the 2.0.0 push, so the good pin lands with the release rather than before it. - The Quick Start taught the API 2.1 deletes, silently. `require "capybara_screenshot_diff/minitest"` + `include CapybaraScreenshotDiff::Minitest::Assertions` print nothing: they are eager aliases, so `const_missing` never fires. The Quick Start now starts on canonical `SnapDiff`, and README/CHANGELOG/snapdiff.md say which doors actually warn (config accessors, `include`, `default_options`, `const_missing`) and which cannot. - The CI "Record new baselines" job could not record a new baseline. `check_base_screenshot` runs before `capture_screenshot` and `fail_if_new` is true whenever `ENV["CI"]` is set, so a new screenshot raises before anything is written and the commit step finds nothing. The job now clears `CI` for that step. - `bundle exec rake test` / `rails test` swept out of the three CI workflows, "The Short Version", and the historical upgrade sections: in a Rails app they skip `test/system/` and report `0 runs`. - The delete-the-baselines block in UPGRADING replaced with the commit workflow the README documents. - `docs/drivers.md` told you to delete the `driver:` setting on one screen and to add it on another; same for configuration.md, migration-guide.md. - `rescue SnapDiff::Error` does not catch a failed assertion under the framework integrations -- Minitest converts it to `Minitest::Assertion` and RSpec to `ExpectationNotMetError`. Said so. - "2.0 will not rewrite a baseline you already committed" contradicted the README and reality: a failing run does rewrite the baseline path. Reworded to what is meant (no re-encoding) plus what actually happens. Also, all verified in a scratch app: the `git add test/fixtures/screenshots/` path was never the default (`doc/screenshots` is); the example failure output showed a `max_color_distance` key the vips path never emits; the artifact table listed three of five files; `application_system_test_case.rb` omitted both `require "test_helper"` and `driven_by` (without the latter the same page captures at 2800x1610 instead of 1400x1257); `homepage_test.rb` omitted `require "application_system_test_case"` and raised NameError as printed; and `DEBUG=1` never had anything to do with keeping `.diff.png` files. Docs only. rake test:unit 610/0, standardrb clean.
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In `@docs/ci-integration.md`:
- Around line 241-251: Update the screenshot baseline recording workflow around
the recording step and “Commit updated baselines” step so unexpected functional,
browser, driver, or application failures cannot trigger an automatic commit and
push. Suppress only expected screenshot-mismatch failures, or require an
explicit verification result before staging and committing files under
doc/screenshots/, while preserving baseline updates for validated recordings.
In `@docs/migration-guide.md`:
- Around line 273-280: Update the ruby-vips setup section in the migration guide
to state that Linux and macOS require the native libvips package, and link to
the platform-specific libvips installation instructions before comparisons are
run.
In `@docs/RELEASE_PREP.md`:
- Around line 36-38: Update the release workflow around rubygems/release-gem@v1
to detect when the primary gem version is already published and skip its
duplicate push, while still publishing the mirror gem and creating the GitHub
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Do not auto-commit after every test failure.
continue-on-error: true makes this recording step non-blocking, so the commit step still runs after any test command failure. GitHub records the failed outcome but allows later steps to continue. (docs.github.com)
A functional test, browser startup, driver, or application failure can therefore leave partial or invalid screenshot output in doc/screenshots/. The next step stages and pushes that output as accepted baselines.
Use a recording path that suppresses only expected screenshot mismatch failures, or require explicit verification before committing the generated baselines.
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In `@docs/ci-integration.md` around lines 241 - 251, Update the screenshot
baseline recording workflow around the recording step and “Commit updated
baselines” step so unexpected functional, browser, driver, or application
failures cannot trigger an automatic commit and push. Suppress only expected
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| Use libvips for ~50ms comparisons per image — installing the gem is the whole setup, and from | ||
| 2.1 it is the only backend: | ||
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| gem 'ruby-vips' | ||
| Capybara::Screenshot::Diff.driver = :vips | ||
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| Do **not** add `driver = :vips`: that setting is removed in 2.1 and raises `NoMethodError` | ||
| there, silently, with nothing in 2.0 to warn you. See [Drivers](drivers.md). |
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The ruby-vips gem is a Ruby binding that requires the native libvips library to be installed on your system [1][2]. Installation requirements differ based on your operating system [1][2]. For Linux and macOS, you must manually install the libvips binary using your system's package manager before installing the ruby-vips gem [1][3]. For example: - On macOS using Homebrew, use: brew install vips [4][3]. - On Linux, use your distribution's package manager (e.g., apt install libvips42) [1][2]. Because the gem uses pkg-config to locate the native library, you must ensure that libvips is correctly discovered by your system [5][6]. If you encounter installation errors, you may need to update your PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable to include the directory where the vips.pc file is located (typically /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig or similar) [5][6]. For Windows, the ruby-vips gem includes support to automatically pull in the necessary msys libvips binaries, so typically only running gem install ruby-vips is required [1][2]. You may need to set the RUBY_DLL_PATH environment variable to point to the libvips bin directory to ensure it is found at runtime [7]. After ensuring the native dependency is present, you can install the gem via: gem install ruby-vips [1][7] Or add it to your Gemfile: gem 'ruby-vips' [1][2]
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- 1: https://github.com/libvips/ruby-vips/blob/master/README.md
- 2: https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/ruby-vips
- 3: https://github.com/libvips/ruby-vips
- 4: https://www.libvips.org/install.html
- 5: https://github.com/libvips/ruby-vips/wiki/Installation-on-various-platforms
- 6: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29616783/cannot-install-ruby-vips-no-pkg-config-libvips
- 7: https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/ruby-vips/2.0.7
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On Linux and macOS, ruby-vips requires the native libvips package. State this requirement and link to the platform-specific installation instructions. Otherwise, a clean environment can fail to load the backend before comparisons run.
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| - **Both** gem names must trust this repo + `release.yml` as a trusted publisher on | ||
| rubygems.org — `capybara-screenshot-diff` **and** `snap_diff-capybara`. If only one | ||
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- 1: https://deepwiki.com/rubygems/release-gem
- 2: rake release step fails in release-please github action ruby/rubygems#8493
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rake releaserunning twice and failing the second time with errorRepushing of gem versions is not allowed.itsSaad/contact_sync#2 - 4: https://github.com/developerz-ai/wurk/blob/main/RELEASE.md
- 5: Disallow publishing of same canonical version numbers rubygems/rubygems.org#2559
- 6: Fetch git tags before running gem release rubygems/release-gem#17
- 7: Idempotent publish guard for ghpkg-release.yml + rubygems-release.yml (both paths) metanorma/ci#364
- 8: https://github.com/metanorma/ci/pull/364/files
- 9: metanorma/ci@e7bda77
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When running the Bundler rake release task, encountering a "duplicate version already exists" error is expected behavior, as RubyGems enforces immutable releases for security reasons [1][2][3]. Key aspects of this behavior include: 1. RubyGems Policy: RubyGems does not allow overwriting or re-pushing an existing gem version, even if the previous version was yanked [1][4][2][3]. Once a version number is published, it is permanently associated with that gem name on the registry [1][3]. If you need to fix a mistake in a release, you must increment the version number (e.g., from 0.1.1 to 0.1.2) [4][2][3]. 2. Rake Task Failure: If rake release fails during the push stage because the version already exists on RubyGems, the task will abort [5][4]. Because rake release performs multiple steps—including building, tagging, and pushing—a failure late in the process may leave your local repository in a state where a git tag has already been created or pushed [6][5][7]. 3. Troubleshooting Git Tags: If the task fails after the git tag has been created, you may encounter issues on subsequent attempts because the git tag already exists in your local or remote repository [6][8]. - If the remote tag already exists and matches your current commit, some developers suggest checking if the rake release task can be configured to tolerate existing tags [8]. - If you encounter "tag already exists" errors when running the task again, you may need to manually delete the local or remote tag before retrying, or verify if your environment is accidentally triggering the release tasks twice (e.g., by double-loading the task definitions) [6][5]. To resolve a failed release, you should typically increment the version in your gemspec and ensure your git state is clean (e.g., removing any improperly created tags) before running bundle exec rake release again [4][2][7].
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- 1: https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/blob/master/app/models/pusher.rb
- 2: gem push confused ruby/rubygems#4705
- 3: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67865389/is-it-possible-to-re-push-yanked-version-gem-published-at-rubygems-org-at-same
- 4: Cant repush to ruby gems after yanking all versions. ruby/rubygems#3026
- 5: rake release confuses itself with the tag it just created rubygems/bundler#2442
- 6: rake release step fails in release-please github action ruby/rubygems#8493
- 7: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20824049/rake-release-fail-using-gem-bundler
- 8:
rake releaseshould not fail if tag already exists for the current SHA rubygems/bundler#2155
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Make same-version release recovery idempotent.
If the primary gem is published but the mirror push fails, rubygems/release-gem@v1 still runs gem push for the primary gem on re-dispatch. RubyGems rejects the duplicate version, so the retry cannot publish the mirror or create the GitHub Release. Add a published-version guard or a mirror-only recovery path, and update lines 84–90 accordingly.
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In `@docs/RELEASE_PREP.md` around lines 36 - 38, Update the release workflow
around rubygems/release-gem@v1 to detect when the primary gem version is already
published and skip its duplicate push, while still publishing the mirror gem and
creating the GitHub Release on re-dispatch. Update the corresponding recovery
instructions to document this idempotent retry behavior.
- bug_report template told reporters to run `rake test`, which runs zero system tests in a Rails app -- the same trap this branch exists to remove. - drivers.md said an unknown per-screenshot `driver:` key is "simply inert". It is validated and raises; only the deprecation warning is absent. - drivers.md said `:auto` and `:chunky_png` each warn once per process. `:auto` is silent when ruby-vips resolves; only `:chunky_png` warns.
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Builds on #251 (rebased onto master, which now carries the six fixes merged today). Closes the last two documentation causes of a false green.
1.
rake testruns zero system testsThe Quick Start's example is a Rails system test in
test/system/, and step 1 saidbundle exec rake test. In a Rails app that skipstest/system/entirely:A fresh-adopter persona hit exactly this, and the FAQ then reassured them: "The test passed on first run. Did it work? — Yes." Commands now match the example, with a callout, because
0 runsis the easiest possible way to believe visual testing is working when nothing is.2.
RECORD_SCREENSHOTS=1never existedIt appeared in
ci-integration.md(×2) andmigration-guide.mdas the way to record baselines. Nothing inlib/has ever read it — it is this repository's own test-harness convention (test/test_helper.rb). #255 removed the matching false promise from the gem's own error message.Replaced with the flow that works, which the gem already implements: a run writes every changed screenshot to its baseline path (comparison is deferred to teardown, so a differing screenshot does not abort the test and later ones still capture), so accepting changes is
git add+ commit.docs/docker-testing.mdkeepsRECORD_SCREENSHOTS— it genuinely works there, because that page documents this repo's own harness — and now says so explicitly instead of reading as user advice.Docs-only. Unit suite 602/0, standardrb clean.
Summary by Sourcery
Align the documentation, CI examples, and release guidance with the working Rails system-test workflow and the SnapDiff 2.0 transitional release.
New Features:
Bug Fixes:
Enhancements:
CI:
Deployment:
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Tests:
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Update: cold-eyes review fixes (658cdbb)
An independent reviewer built a stock Rails 8.1 app and ran the documented Quick Start end to end. It did not work. Every fix below was verified in a scratch Rails app (Ruby 4.0.6, Rails 8.1.3.1, libvips 8.18.5,
capybara-screenshot-diff 2.0.0.beta3from rubygems and against this branch viapath:) or read offlib/.Blockers
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gem "capybara-screenshot-diff", "~> 2.0"does not resolve.There is no final 2.x, and Bundler never resolves a prerelease from a plain requirement. All five install snippets (
README.md,CHANGELOG.md,docs/UPGRADING.md×2,docs/migration-guide.md) now pin"2.0.0.beta3"with one clause saying it is the current prerelease.docs/RELEASE_PREP.mdgains the step that swaps them all to"~> 2.0"as part of the 2.0.0 push, with the grep to find them.2. The Quick Start taught the API 2.1 deletes, silently. Probed every legacy door in a fresh process against this branch:
require "capybara_screenshot_diff/minitest"include CapybaraScreenshotDiff::Minitest::Assertionsrequire "capybara/screenshot/diff"Capybara::Screenshot::Diff.tolerance =include Capybara::Screenshot::DiffCapybara::Screenshot::Diff.default_optionsCapybara::Screenshot::Diff::ImageCompareThe Quick Start's own two lines are eager aliases (
legacy_shims.rb,capybara_screenshot_diff/minitest.rb), soconst_missingnever fires. The Quick Start now starts on canonicalSnapDiff— verified green end to end on beta3 — andREADME.md:14,CHANGELOG.mdanddocs/snapdiff.mdnow name the doors that warn instead of claiming "the first legacy API a process touches". The CHANGELOG's beta3 note no longer implies the gap is closed.3. The CI "Record new baselines" job cannot record new baselines.
check_base_screenshotruns beforecapture_screenshot(screenshot_matcher.rb:24-31) andfail_if_newis true wheneverENV["CI"]is set (config.rb:106), so a new screenshot raises before anything is written:The workflow now sets
CI: ""on the record step, with a note explaining why.git add test/fixtures/ doc/screenshots/→git add doc/screenshots/; verified that with the README's.gitignorethis stages only baselines and none of the four artifacts.4 & 5.
rake test/rails testswept. Both report0 runs, 0 assertions, 0 failuresin a Rails app whilebin/rails test test/systemreports1 runs, 1 assertions— measured. Replaced in all three recommended GitHub Actions workflows (ci-integration.md:61,132,163), in "The Short Version" (UPGRADING.md:39), and inUPGRADING.md:386,471,727,785+migration-guide.md:80,212.UPGRADING.md:779-789'srm doc/screenshots/*.png+rake testblock is replaced with the commit workflow.Mediums
docs/drivers.mdno longer says delete thedriver:line on one screen and add it on another;configuration.md's two canonical examples drop it with a note; same inmigration-guide.md.docs/snapdiff.md:rescue SnapDiff::Errordoes not catch a failed assertion under the integrations — Minitest converts toMinitest::Assertion(integrations/minitest.rb:38-39), RSpec toExpectationNotMetError(integrations/rspec.rb:60-61).UnstableImage/WindowSizeMismatchErrorare not converted, and the note says so.git statusclean but a failing one showsM doc/screenshots/homepage.png.Also fixed (each measured)
max_color_distance, which the vips path never emits. Real output:({"area_size":41520.0,"region":[8.0,8.0,1392.0,38.0]})..base.png,.diff.png,.base.diff.png,.heatmap.diff.png).test/system/homepage_test.rbas printed raisedNameError: uninitialized constant ApplicationSystemTestCase— missingrequire "application_system_test_case".test/application_system_test_case.rbalso omittedrequire "test_helper"(reviewer missed this one): without it the app half-boots and every request dies withundefined method 'info' for nil.driven_by: the same page captures at 2800x1610 instead of 1400x1257 and every comparison failsDimensions have changed.DEBUG=1 … keeps .diff.png fileswas false — the artifacts are kept unconditionally, and the onlyENV["DEBUG"]inlib/is one HTML-reporter warn. Corrected.SnapDiff.serve;framework-setup.mdandsnapdiff.mdMinitest snippets given the samerequire/driven_byfix.Not changed, on purpose
migration-guide.md:76keepsbundle exec rake test— it is the "Before (Percy GitHub Action)" snippet, i.e. the reader's existing config, not our advice.CONTRIBUTING.md,README.md:258andRELEASE_PREP.mdkeeprake test— those are this repository's own suite.Two things for
lib/(not touched here, per scope)screenshot_matcher.rb's new-screenshot error says "To record it: run the test, thengit add <path>" — but underCIthat file is never written, so the instruction cannot be followed on the run that prints it.errors.rb's header comment says "rescue SnapDiff::Errorreally does catch them all" — true of the raise sites, misleading about what a user sees under the integrations.Docs only.
rake test:unit610 runs / 0 failures,standardrb lib testclean.Summary by CodeRabbit
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