Finding nonprintable characters with a test
Our current application includes a lot of static content created by content editors. They check in static HTML files, and we include these files in various p...
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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, ...
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...