This isn’t really a bug, but just an observation on overflowing borders when taking windowed screenshots.

The border of the windowed screenshot is thicker than usual and overflowing, contrast this with a regular windowed screenshot:

Although the actual windowed screenshot looks fine:

In the meantime, check out how easy it is to create a native browser with Atlas here:

http://dailyjs.com/2009/11/16/atlas/

Got this in a recent email from the Singapore Ruby Group:


git config --global color.branch "auto"
git config --global color.status "auto"
git config --global color.diff "auto"


Thanks Dinesh!

You can find out more here:
http://cheat.errtheblog.com/s/git

Nicely attached in Github:

Comment on existing Github issues:

and have them nicely show up too:

Check it out at http://freshlog.com

Enjoy!

and you will hear Mac OS X tell you when its done while you go do other stuff.

If you run Selenium for the first time round, you’ll end with 2 tabs, the second one being the results:

When you run the test again, the first tab (circled in red) which was created in the previous session (also the first Selenium test), restored by Firefox, also runs a parallael Selenium test, resulting test failures:

The way to fix this is to disable session restore in Firefox’s about:config:

But what if you love Firefox’s session restore feature? Create a separate Firefox profile for Selenium testing!

Go to Terminal.app then enter this to run Firefox’s Profile Manager:


/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -ProfileManager


Then modify /vendor/plugins/selenium-on-rails/lib/selenium-on-rails/acceptance_test_runner.rb:

Under the start_browser method, add a


-P Selenium


An example:


command = "\"#{path}\" -P Selenium \"http://#{HOST}:#{@port}#{TEST_RUNNER_URL}?test=tests&auto=true&baseUrl=#{base_url}&resultsUrl=postResults/#{log}&multiWindow=#{MULTI_WINDOW}\""


That would set Selenium to use Firefox with your newly created Selenium Profile, where you can turn off Session Restore just for that profile and still enjoy it in your default Firefox profile.

and add your directories, i.e.:

/log/*
/db/schema.rb

If you don’t want to run any extra commands beyond git commit/push and cap deploy, you’ll want to look having your Capistrano script run your Rake tests locally too.

The Capistrano command “run” execute stuff remotely on your target deployed server, but since the deploy.rb Capistrano script is just a regular ruby script, you can just use “system()” or ““” (backticks) to execute commands locally.

Here’s an example:


# acceptance test
task :run_acceptance_test do
system("rake test:acceptance") # can use backticks `` as a shorthand also
exit if $? != 0
end
before "deploy:set_comment", :run_acceptance_test


Let me explain.


before "deploy:set_comment", :run_acceptance_test


would tell Capistrano to run your custom named task, in the case here, it’s “:run_acceptance_test”.


exit if $? != 0


Would check the error code of the previously run system command and if the error code (defined by $?) is not 0 (zero), it’ll cause the whole Capistrano script to exit.

So, if rake test:acceptance fails, the Capistrano script will exit and deployment will not happen at all.

The only problem is, Selenium IDE doesn’t output in RSelenese and having to port one of their supported formats (Ruby Selenium) is a pain. So what do you do? Install the RSelenese plugin of course!

Here are the steps:

Then paste the following code:


/*
* Selenium on Rails RSelenese format for Selenium IDE
*
* Written by Shinya Kasatani (kasatani at gmail.com)
*/

this.playable = false;


(Taken from http://wiki.openqa.org/display/SIDE/SeleniumOnRails)

here:

If you’d wanna tweak the generated RSelenese code, here’s a handy reference:

http://svn.openqa.org/fisheye/browse/~raw,r=1000/selenium-on-rails/selenium-on-rails/doc/classes/SeleniumOnRails/TestBuilder.html

Enjoy!

Hi there!

I’m Alvin and my friends know me as an unrepentant geek whom they can turn to for solutions.

I love hacking (don’t mix that up with the illegal stuff), putting things together that aren’t meant to be used by default in a certain way to solve problems.

Some of my previous endeavors include setting up a Linksys SPA-3102 VOIP gateway at home to make cheap outgoing mobile calls via 3G on the go at landline rates, turning an old Sony Ericsson k750i cellphone into an SMS-sending GSM modem (via AT commands), web scraping of wunderground.com using rubyful soup (Hpricot does this easily now), installing GentooX (a linux distribution) on the XBox to run as a bit torrent server.

Lately, I’ve been messing about with objective-C iPhone development and I’ve just finished working on an app of mine (hopefully Apple approves it for the appstore!).

I’m also competent with Ruby on Rails, PHP, Linux, SQL and I have an eye for design, designing vector art with Adobe Illustrator – Probably just enough to launch a startup!

So drop me an email!