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Comment on Testing with Redis by ehcache.net

ehcache.net — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:34:09 +0000

Testing with Redis…

On the side, I’ve been working on a new aggregator, Aggir, which allows me to test various things. I started off using SQLite and Sequel for storage, put Solr behind the scenes for search and added a very simple Web UI using Sinatra and HAML. Yeah, I t…

Comment on My Themeword for 2010: (RE)BUILD by Tara Hunt

Tara Hunt — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:56:28 +0000

That’s awesome! Good luck and here is to a much more positive 2010!! Go rebuild!

Comment on Using Solr’s AbstractSolrTestCase by josh

josh — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:10:46 +0000

Hoss -

Thanks for the comment! I can totally see that I’m not necessarily using the test case in its most pure form but the good news is that it is helping our developers write more tests and that’s definitely a good thing!

I’ll take a look at the code and see if I can produce a patch that’ll work.

Thanks again!

Comment on Using Solr’s AbstractSolrTestCase by Hoss

Hoss — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:51:26 +0000

The abstract test case was really designed to be a base for *Solr* tests, or Solr plugins — hence the purity of a clean data dir before every test is run. As you say: mocking is definitely the way to go if you want to test the interaction of external systems with Solr (no need to even have Solr running, let alone running inside the actual test case, or with a particular index.)

That said: a patch to refactor a new “getDataDir()” method out of setUp so that subclasses could override should be fairly trivial if you’d like to submit one. I don’t have the code in front of me, but I think it would even be fairly easy to make it so that if a subclass overrides getDataDir() to return null, then the dataDir from the solrconfig.xml file will be used (just like in a production instance)

Comment on Testing with Redis by josh

josh — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:30:57 +0000

Thanks for that, Ezra! I do admit that I didn’t look really far so I’ll give that a try and it will probably make things much cleaner.

Really appreciate the work you’ve done on the client library. It’s made things so easy.

Comment on Testing with Redis by Ezra

Ezra — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:22:00 +0000

Redis has built in support for multipel databases. So just use the redis.select(5) api to select a different db then your main one which defaults to 0. See the specs in redis-rb for how I do this to run the specs on db 15. Redis is default compiled with support for 15 database with numeric indexes and you just select which db to use.

Comment on EarthLink, Short Term Profit but Long Term? by josh

josh — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:11:22 +0000

Wow, Ben, I might need to setup a ‘drunk commenting’ module with extra preview functionality.

At any rate, I think dial-up dies in about 2 years. There might be some stragglers but overall the majority of customers leave for broadband.

I think the bailout money + the digital transition is going to do it.

Comment on EarthLink, Short Term Profit but Long Term? by Ben Welsh

Ben Welsh — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:05:26 +0000

Wait. Is it overwriting my previous comments. Jeebus, this is going poorly.

Comment on EarthLink, Short Term Profit but Long Term? by Ben Welsh

Ben Welsh — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:05:02 +0000

Err. I accidentally typed your name in the name box. I have no idea why. Can I blame alcohol?

Comment on EarthLink, Short Term Profit but Long Term? by Josh Lucas

Josh Lucas — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:04:35 +0000

How long do you think dialup is going to continue as a viable business? And I wonder if all the money the government is about to pour into such things will affect their market. My parents in rural Iowa, who had never had a cable line as an option, as just getting one back on their gravel road. Translation: Goodbye dial up Internet.