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    • Improved feature-test reliability by running scenarios with JavaScript only when browser interaction is required.
    • Preserved coverage for client-side validation, responsive comments tabs, search interactions, event workflows, and resource editing.
    • Updated event scenarios to use browser-enabled testing where required for phone masking, photo cloning, creation, deletion, and validation.
    • Simplified non-interactive feature scenarios to run without unnecessary JavaScript support.

These only ever do plain visit/fill_in/click_link/click_button/select
against normal HTML forms and links, with no AJAX, no client-side
validation, no dynamically-added form elements, and no confirm()/
window/file-input-widget behavior -- rack_test (the Capybara default)
handles all of it identically to a real browser, ~15-20x faster per
example. Spot-checked one non-obvious case directly rather than
trusting appearances: edit_user_profile_spec.rb asserts on a field's
`disabled` state, which turned out to be set server-side in the ERB
template (`disabled: !can_edit...`), not toggled by JS.

Verified by actually running all 10 files together under the default
driver: 39 examples, 0 failures.
staff_resources_spec.rb: the top-level tag covered all 16 examples;
only "should save edited description" actually does AJAX (confirmed
via the view's inline jQuery + the spec's own wait_for_ajax). Verified
against the actual view templates before touching anything: the
"delete a resource"/"upload a file"/"search for attachments" examples
all click plain Rails form submit buttons (form_for ... method: :delete,
f.submit, submit_tag inside a form_tag ... method: 'get') with no
remote:true or JS handler bound to them.

event_management_spec.rb: same shape, but two examples the initial
audit called avoidable turned out not to be once actually run under
rack_test (RSpec suite is the real gate here, same as every gem
upgrade pass in this repo's history):
- "should save and render attributes" fills the Location Phone field
  with send_keys specifically because that field has a JS inputmask
  ((999) 999-9999) -- fill_in bypasses it, and rack_test's driver
  doesn't implement send_keys at all (raises NotImplementedError).
- "clone a past event" calls Event#attach_photo_from, which performs
  a real HTTP fetch of the source event's own photo URL via open-uri.
  That only succeeds when Capybara has booted an actual listening
  server (true for any real-browser driver, including js: true) --
  under rack_test everything is dispatched in-process with nothing
  listening on that URL, so the fetch raises OpenURI::HTTPError.
  Confirmed by actually hitting this failure, not by inspection.
  "clone a past event without copying the photo" avoids this entirely
  (it checks the photo_delete checkbox, which skips attach_photo_from
  in EventsController#create) and stays fast.

Both files verified by running the whole file after each change: 16
examples / 0 failures each.
Both files mirror each other: a top-level tag over ~18 examples where
only two things are genuinely JS-dependent -- the dynamic add/remove
photo & document widget ("should save the user-entered values", which
adds/removes file inputs via click_link with no page reload), and the
"user enters invalid attributes --client-side validation" context
(inline error messages shown without a server round-trip, per its own
name). "permitted access to fields" (disabled attrs are server-rendered
per !can_add_cats?/!can_edit_cats? in the view), "cancel while adding"
(plain click_link), and "--server-side validation" (a real POST that
re-renders the form with Rails' own error output, per the spec's own
"#uniqueness of name validated on server" comment) all run identically
under rack_test.

Verified by running each full file: 18 examples / 0 failures each.
…dog)

Same shape and same verdicts as the add_cat/add_dog pair: only the
dynamic photo/document widget ("should save the updated values") and
the "--client-side validation" context (inline errors + the same
widget for file-size/type checks) need a real browser. "permitted
access to fields" (server-rendered disabled attrs), "cancel while
editing" (plain click_link), and "--server-side validation" (real POST,
Rails' own error re-render) run identically under rack_test.

Verified by running each full file: 23 examples / 0 failures each.
"comments tabs, small/large screen" contexts call set_screen_size,
which does a real window.resize_to -- rack_test's driver doesn't
override Capybara::Driver::Base#resize_window_to, so it raises
NotSupportedByDriverError outright (confirmed by reading Capybara's
own driver source, not just inferring from the name). Everything else
in these files (unavailable-status alert, Adoptapet ad text, unpopulated
attribute display) is a plain visit + static content assertion.

Note: find_link_and_click (spec/helpers/application_helpers.rb) looks
JS-dependent at a glance -- it builds an execute_script/scrollIntoView
call -- but that line is commented out; the helper only ever calls
element.click. Not a factor either way.

Verified by running each full file: 19 examples / 0 failures each.
"visit manager view" (sign-in redirect) and "should find dogs matching
text partial" (a direct visit with filter_params in the URL, bypassing
the search widget entirely) are plain server-rendered page loads.
"should show all dogs when search is cleared" and dog_search's
"should default select the search_field_index..." both go through
#reset_message / the "Search" button inside #dog-search, both of
which are click-intercepted by jQuery handlers in
animals_index.js (GlobalMultiSelect.fetch_all / .search) rather than
real links or form submits -- confirmed by reading the actual
delegated click bindings, not just guessing from behavior.

Verified by running each full file: 3 examples / 0 failures
(cat_search), 4 examples / 0 failures (dog_search).
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Feature specs now scope JavaScript execution to scenarios that require browser-side behavior. Feature-wide JavaScript settings were removed from unaffected scenarios. Event specs also define explicit driver requirements for masked input and photo cloning.

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Feature-wide JavaScript cleanup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Remove unnecessary feature-wide JavaScript
spec/features/attach_agreement_to_user_spec.rb, spec/features/bulletin_spec.rb, spec/features/cat/cats_manager_index_spec.rb, spec/features/cat/manage_cats_spec.rb, spec/features/dashboard_spec.rb, spec/features/dog/dogs_manager_index_spec.rb, spec/features/dog/manage_dogs_spec.rb, spec/features/edit_user_profile_spec.rb, spec/features/manage_medical_behavior_summaries_spec.rb, spec/features/staff_resources_spec.rb, spec/features/view_adoption_app_spec.rb
Feature declarations no longer enable JavaScript globally. The edited resource-description example retains explicit JavaScript support.

Cat and dog feature overrides

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scope JavaScript to browser-dependent examples
spec/features/cat/add_cat_spec.rb, spec/features/cat/cat_manager_show_spec.rb, spec/features/cat/cat_search_spec.rb, spec/features/cat/edit_cat_spec.rb, spec/features/dog/add_dog_spec.rb, spec/features/dog/dog_manager_show_spec.rb, spec/features/dog/dog_search_spec.rb, spec/features/dog/edit_dog_spec.rb
Feature-wide JavaScript settings were replaced with explicit metadata on save, validation, comments-tab, search, and search-clearing examples.

Event driver requirements

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configure event scenarios explicitly
spec/features/event_management_spec.rb
Event creation, deletion, cloning, and validation scenarios now enable JavaScript. Event creation uses real keystrokes for the masked phone field. Photo cloning uses a listening server for its HTTP request.

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In `@spec/features/cat/cat_search_spec.rb`:
- Around line 40-43: Remove the fixed sleep from the “should show all dogs when
search is cleared” example and rely on the result matcher’s Capybara waiting
behavior after click_link 'reset_message'.
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Comment thread spec/features/cat/cat_search_spec.rb Outdated
Root cause: this app has no config/master.key or credentials.yml.enc,
so Rails' test-env secret_key_base has always come from its own
generate_local_secret fallback (railties' configuration.rb), which
does a non-atomic check-then-write against a single shared
tmp/local_secret.txt -- create it if missing, then read it back. On a
fresh CI checkout that file doesn't exist yet (tmp/ is gitignored),
and both parallel:create and parallel_rspec now boot several Rails
processes concurrently. If two race to create the file, a loser's
File.binread can catch it between the winner's truncate and write and
get back "" -- Rails' own secret_key_base= setter rejects that non-nil,
blank String with exactly this app's reported error. It's a genuine
race (timing-dependent), which is why a rerun usually clears it, and
it's connected to going parallel: the old single serial db:create
process never had a second process to race against.

Verified the mechanism directly: with tmp/local_secret.txt deleted and
SECRET_KEY_BASE unset, `Rails.application.secret_key_base` still falls
into generate_local_secret; with SECRET_KEY_BASE set, the same call
resolves to that value and never touches tmp/local_secret.txt at all
(confirmed the file doesn't even get created). Fixed by setting
SECRET_KEY_BASE as a fixed, non-secret job-level env var in CI, so the
fallback -- and its race -- is never reached in the first place. Not
reproduced by trying to force the race locally (15-way parallel
locally didn't hit the window in 5 attempts), consistent with it being
a narrow, timing-dependent race rather than a deterministic bug.
The following expect(page).to have_selector(filter_params, text:
"Tracking ID") already polls up to Capybara's default max wait time
for the reset click's AJAX response to land -- the explicit sleep(2)
was both redundant and a fixed cost paid on every run regardless of
how fast the response actually was.

Verified: 5 runs across different random seeds, 0 failures each: no
flakiness from relying on the matcher's wait instead. The "search and
clear search" example group's average dropped from ~2.0s/example to
~0.38s/example.
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coverage: 62.957%. remained the same — perf/faster-tests-less-js into master

application_helpers.rb's four flash_*_message helpers each did
sleep(1) before page.find(...), which already polls/waits on its own
-- pure dead weight on every one of their 21 call sites across the
suite (add_cat/edit_cat/add_dog/edit_dog/cat_search/dog_search/
event_management/staff_resources specs).

event_management_spec.rb's "should delete a past event" had a
sleep(2) immediately before calling flash_notice_message -- redundant
now that the helper waits on its own, same pattern as the earlier
cat_search_spec.rb fix.

cat_filter_spec.rb / dog_filter_spec.rb's "reset filter" examples had
a sleep(2) followed immediately by reading cats_list/dogs_list, a
plain page.all(...) helper with no built-in wait (unlike have_selector,
page.all only retries for a match count, not for existing matches'
content to change) -- so removing the sleep outright would have made
these read stale pre-reset content. Fixed by moving the have_no_selector
('#reset_message') check (already present later in each example) up to
right after the click, giving Capybara something to actually poll on
before the plain list read -- and dropping the now-duplicate check at
the end.

Verified: the 8 files touching these helpers/sleeps run clean across
two full-file seeds (185 examples / 0 failures each), the two filter
specs individually across 5 seeds (64 examples / 0 failures each, no
flakiness from the reordering), and two full-suite runs with different
seeds (743 examples / 0 failures / 12 pending, matching baseline).
Serial wall time: 3m18s -> 2m54s.

Left campaign.spec.rb and donation.rb's sleep()s alone -- both files
are wrapped in `end if false` and never run, so there's nothing to
gain from touching them.
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