Testing page caching with SpiderTest
The website I’m currently working on is similar to an online brochure. The data on the site changes hourly, but every user sees the same thing. As a result, ...
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Capistrano dry run
I submitted a patch to Capistrano to add a “—dry-run” option (or -n for short). This flag causes capistrano to print out all of commands it will run without ...
Improved internationalization test
I wrote previously about how we test the internationalization of our website in Testing internationalization language files. Basically, we generate a blank l...
Switching users during a capistrano deploy
We have a complicated deployment on my current project which includes running several commands as a different user from the main deployment user. Normally, t...
Capistrano with pairing stations
My last few projects have all been developed on mac minis. We have them set up as pairing stations, with two people to a machine. Every machine was cloned fr...