Tag Archives: ruby

Taking your cucumber tests back to the future with Delorean

March 31, 2010 – 12:28 pm

I’m currently working on an API for Vquence’s VQdata product which allows our customers to use a REST interface to retrieve videos with certain keywords they have previously stored. While writing tests I need to be able to mock out the Time object so that my tests were deterministic relative to time. I remembered listening [...]

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Adding multiple database support to Cucumber

October 8, 2009 – 4:46 pm

The Vqmetrics application needs to connect to two different databases. The first holds the videos, authors and their relevant statistics, while the second database holds the users, monitors and trackers. We do this by specifying two databases in config/database.yml. development: database: vqmetrics_devel < <: *login_dev_local   vqdata_development: &VQDATA_TEST database: vqdata_devel <<: *login_dev_local So by default [...]

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Amazon EC2 ruby gem and large user_data

February 26, 2008 – 11:05 am

When you create an instance in EC2 you can send Amazon some user data that is accessible by your instance. At Vquence we use this to send a script that gets executes at boot up. This script contains some openvpn and puppet RSA keys so its approaching about 10k in size. This works without any [...]

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Rails, ActiveRecord, MySQL, GUIDs and the rename_column bug

January 11, 2008 – 8:25 pm

Since I wasted over 4 hours of my life today working my way through this problem I feel the need to share. Since it seems to be the in thing in the Web 2.0 space, just to be cool, we use GUIDs to identify different objects in our URLs at Vquence. For example my randomly [...]

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