On 19 March 2010 13:29, Matthew A. Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

> If you're concerned about regressions specific to the Heroku
> environment, your best bet might be to write a test suite that makes
> requests directly to your Heroku-hosted site (presumably you'd want to
> do this in a staging environment). You could do it at the Selenium
> layer or just by making HTTP requests from Ruby and making assertions
> on the responses.
>
>
Good idea, I've found cucumber + mechanize to be excellent for that exact
purpose.

Cheers,
Ben



> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 09:26, Betelgeuse <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Heroku is not bug free so it would be useful to be able to run against
> > the exact environment.
> > I recently found an issue with Bamboo 1.8.7 not having Kernel#callcc
> > for example.
> >
> > On Mar 19, 2:02 pm, "Matthew A. Brown" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I'm guessing Heroku doesn't intend for you to run your specs on their
> >> dynos. When you install your app, my impression is that they
> >> install/modify several config files in your app to make it play nice
> >> with their environment, all of which are configured for the production
> >> environment.
> >>
> >> What's wrong with just running the specs locally?
> >>
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