Comments for JonHoman.com http://blog.jonhoman.com Walking the Long Road Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:24:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Simple Way to Autoscale Heroku Workers by Dave Hoover http://blog.jonhoman.com/simple-way-to-autoscale-heroku-workers/#comment-687 Dave Hoover Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:24:07 +0000 http://blog.jonhoman.com/?p=391#comment-687 JC Grubbs just told me about HireFire</a>, which seems like it might be helpful. JC Grubbs just told me about HireFire, which seems like it might be helpful.

]]> Comment on Simple Way to Autoscale Heroku Workers by Carl Thuringer http://blog.jonhoman.com/simple-way-to-autoscale-heroku-workers/#comment-681 Carl Thuringer Fri, 08 Apr 2011 03:39:09 +0000 http://blog.jonhoman.com/?p=391#comment-681 Pretty sweet! I've been loving Heroku since I deployed my blog on it and this is exactly the kind of clever cost-saving magic that I expect from a flexible app hosting cloud. I don't currently need workers or extra dynos, but knowing this I'll be alert for occasions where apps I'm working on could benefit from a periodic boost in services. Pretty sweet! I’ve been loving Heroku since I deployed my blog on it and this is exactly the kind of clever cost-saving magic that I expect from a flexible app hosting cloud.
I don’t currently need workers or extra dynos, but knowing this I’ll be alert for occasions where apps I’m working on could benefit from a periodic boost in services.

]]> Comment on Getting Started with webmock and VCR by Myron Marston http://blog.jonhoman.com/getting-started-with-webmock-and-vcr/#comment-673 Myron Marston Mon, 21 Mar 2011 05:24:41 +0000 http://blog.jonhoman.com/?p=361#comment-673 Nice post :). I'd recommend against configuring WebMock (i.e. via "require 'webmock/rspec'"), unless you specifically need to interface with WebMock directly. One of the benefits of VCR is that it works at a higher level of abstraction and allows you to switch stubbing libraries if you need to. Also, WebMock pollutes the rspec namespace a bit (or the global namespace if you include it globally). See <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/ryanbigg/status/25751785707" rel="nofollow">this tweet</a>. Rather than setting a default record mode of :none, and using :new_episodes in your tests, you might consider using the new <a href="http://relishapp.com/myronmarston/vcr/v/1-7-1/dir/record-modes/once" rel="nofollow">once</a> record mode. It's also the default now. If you ever figure out what your issue with using VCR w/ cucumber tags, let me know--I can update the documentation to warn others of any gotchas or pitfalls. Nice post :) .

I’d recommend against configuring WebMock (i.e. via “require ‘webmock/rspec’”), unless you specifically need to interface with WebMock directly. One of the benefits of VCR is that it works at a higher level of abstraction and allows you to switch stubbing libraries if you need to. Also, WebMock pollutes the rspec namespace a bit (or the global namespace if you include it globally). See this tweet.

Rather than setting a default record mode of :none, and using :new_episodes in your tests, you might consider using the new once record mode. It’s also the default now.

If you ever figure out what your issue with using VCR w/ cucumber tags, let me know–I can update the documentation to warn others of any gotchas or pitfalls.

]]> Comment on Faking HTTP requests with WebMock and VCR by Getting Started with webmock and VCR | JonHoman.com http://blog.jonhoman.com/faking-http-requests-with-webmock-and-vcr/#comment-672 Getting Started with webmock and VCR | JonHoman.com Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:36:52 +0000 http://blog.jonhoman.com/?p=349#comment-672 [...] JonHoman.com Walking the Long Road Skip to content HomeAboutContactProjects ← Faking HTTP requests with WebMock and VCR [...] [...] JonHoman.com Walking the Long Road Skip to content HomeAboutContactProjects ← Faking HTTP requests with WebMock and VCR [...]

]]> Comment on Background Jobs in Rails with Resque by Jon http://blog.jonhoman.com/background-jobs-in-rails-with-resque/#comment-652 Jon Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:43:23 +0000 http://blog.jonhoman.com/?p=296#comment-652 Hey Chuck, thanks for pointing out that typo. I made the corresponding change in the code example. I think I still like having the FeedParser code where it is. Being able to queue jobs is the first task I want to describe, and processing those jobs doesn't need to be in place to queue jobs. I think that's the point I wanted to convey. Glad you got something out of the post. Hey Chuck, thanks for pointing out that typo. I made the corresponding change in the code example.

I think I still like having the FeedParser code where it is. Being able to queue jobs is the first task I want to describe, and processing those jobs doesn’t need to be in place to queue jobs. I think that’s the point I wanted to convey.

Glad you got something out of the post.

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