When you do integration testing in a ruby on rails application, you don’t want to stub out all involved models. Rails’ built in approach of using fixtures is considered to be sub-optimal and the way to go today is to use factories.
July 2009
Devopsdays 2009 After years of advocating, @patrickdebois‘s dream came true: He created the Devopsdays. Quoting his announcement from the Agile System Administration Google Group: Devopsdays ’09, the conference that tries to get the best of both dev and ops world. Two days of fun and interesting talks. So if you are a developer with a [...]
Zen is a brand new Kanban tool for lean project management. In contrast to PivotalTracker, which concentrates on automating iteration management for SCRUM like projects, Zen’s main view is a story board. The funny thing is, that I preferred the stroy board view in Mingle over the list view provided by PivotalTracker before I started [...]
John Allspaw and Paul Hammond did a great presentation at Velocity 2009 about the tools and culture at Flickr, which enable them to do 10+ deploys per day. My favorite quote is: Ops’ job is NOT to keep the site stable and fast [but] Ops’ job is it to enable the business (this is the [...]
This is a guest post by our friends over at makandra, a cool Ruby on Rails development shop. Today they announce a great new Ruby gem for dealing with role-based permissions. You know the game! Each time you start a new application the same procedure starts over again: You set up your tools like git, [...]
We’re running separate zones for web, app, and db servers. To be able to know the health of our application and our servers, we rely on pnp4nagios for graphing performance data like CPU utilization, memory usage, etc. Using OpenSolaris zones, there is only one OS kernel running. This is different in e.g. XEN, where every [...]
