Add initialization hooks

[Seifeldin7]

The cypress-rails gem provides a system of event hooks for loading and reloading test data. An example of these hooks is

CypressOnRails.hooks.before_server_start do
  # Called once, before either the transaction or the server is started
end

We can add hooks similar to those provided by cypress-rails into the cypress-on-rails. They can be useful in certain situations, such as inserting data before the server starts/stops or reloading seeds after state reset using after_state_reset hook.

[grantspeelman]

@Seifeldin7 is this what you asking for : https://github.com/shakacode/cypress-on-rails#before_request-configuration

[grantspeelman]

Also your e2e_helper.rb will be loaded on the first request

[Seifeldin7]

@grantspeelman Kind of, but the difference is

• Hooks like before_server_start ensures that the command is executed after the rails server is started. I had an issue where I needed to make sure there was some data in the database before the server started. It is relative to the rails server, not cypress. This will also require us to start the server from the gem instead of opening a new terminal.

• cypress-rails provides a special route cypress_rails_reset_state for resetting the state/ rolling back the transaction to reset the application state before the test is run and after_state_reset hook which is triggered after it, which is different from what we have now with cy.app('clean') which cleans the whole database.

[OuttaSpaceTime]

This might be interesting to load fixtures upfront instead of within each individual test and then use transactional tests, same as the rails default. now every test will setup fixture upfront for themselves.