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Deploying trunk or tags with capistrano

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On my current project, we use capistrano for all of our deployments. In the simplest case, you tell capistrano the URL of your repository, and then you deplo...

Finding nonprintable characters with a test

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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...

Testing page caching with SpiderTest

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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

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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

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I wrote previously about how we test the internationalization of our website in Testing internationalization language files. Basically, we generate a blank l...