Wondering Mike

I've avoided Rails fixtures for years but for a new project I thought I'd take a fresh look. I found a new strategy that recommends fixture data for the small set of of db records that appear in many tests while using factories for data unique to particular tests. This approach will speed up tests by eliminating the setup/teardown of the fixture'd data. Fixtures are inserted once before the full test run. Tests are wrapped in a transaction which is rolled back after each test. A few links that got my attention:

http://brandonhilkert.com/blog/using-rails-fixtures-to-seed-a-database/

http://collectiveidea.com/blog/archives/2014/08/06/time-to-bring-back-fixtures/

Trying out Byobu as a tmux replacement wrapper today.

x = "Universe" <<-'MESSAGE' Hello #{x} MESSAGE # => "Hello #{x}"

Apparently Tumblr doesn't do code blocks well.

Calling rake tasks with args in zshell produces "zsh: no match found" unless ~/.zshrc contains

unsetopt nomatch

Having spent days and days and days configuring vagrant for various apps, I'm punting. No more vagrant on the current project. The shell scripts I developed will work just fine for the server builds.

Yesterday I made the switch to rbenv. I think I'm happier. RVM required sudo to install on the server. meh.

Upstart is the modern way to start (among other things) server processes.