Archive for September, 2006

Sometimes, I just want to skip just that one test when I run my tests with rake test because it takes much longer than other tests, and it gets in the way of rapid iterative cycles when coding. I looked around and haven’t found a way to do that with rake, so I set down [...]

I’ve been writing lots of functional tests lately and came across several unexpected gotchas. Seeing as how forgetful I am recently, I’ll jot them down here (and hopefully benefit anyone else who comes across the same problems). Testing flash.now Testing the contents of the flash.now, somewhat surprisingly, can’t be done with code like this: assert_equal [...]

So with the usual fickle-mindedness, I’ve changed my blog software from Typo to Mephisto. Well, it wasn’t so much based on a whim – there were some reasons I wanted to stop using Typo: For some reason, Typo is very unstable for me on my VPS with 160MB RAM. I deploy Typo on a mongrel_cluster [...]