On a project recently, our full test suite began to crawl (taking ~9 minutes instead of less than 1) on our local machines running OS X but ran normally on CI. This slowdown took our productivity to near zero. We discovered our Capybara specs with js: true set were the culprit but we couldn’t figure out why. Finding the Problem We needed to get more information from the tests so we set the javascr
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