The Blog: April 2011
Speed Up Testing With Spork
If you TATFT, embrace red-green-refactor, or you just want to speed up execution of your test suite, you might want to take a look at Spork. It will fork a test server for you that pre-loads your environment allowing you to run individual tests or your entire test suite without the startup cost of the loading the environment for each test or test suite run.
Capistrano and Campfire After-Deploy Hook For The Lulz
We recently started using capistrano-mountaintop to announce when deploys to our environments are taking place. This morning, @andkjar noted that it’d be nice to see if the deploy was successful or not since it pastes the deploy log and it’s long enough that you might not see whether or not the deploy was successful. This simple addition to deploy.rb checks the deploy log for success or failure and pastes an appropriate image into our Campfire room.
Reduce Your Open Source Technical Debt Using These Easy Steps!
Do you know what all those GitHub projects you’ve got forked to your personal GitHub account are? Technical debt. Follow these easy steps to enjoy a debt-free open source lifestyle.