Andrea Fomera: New: Checkset - a Ruby gem for repeatable verifications using Playwright.
27-Feb-2026 372
So... I accidentally reinvented system tests.
Hear me out though! System Tests as Rails Developers know them tend to be flaky, and slow. Playwright tends to fix the flakiness in how it runs the tests, but either way they can be slow and prone to breakage when you check the UI and your tests aren't hardened for it.
Then you have this test suite in your apps that only runs against your test environment, that feels like a waste and most teams or people I know have to do 'smoke tests' against a staging or production environment after deploys to verify things were ok. What a waste of all that time to do system tests and not even get to use it against your production environment.