I'm definitely no expert in server admin. I guess I'm lucky in the sense that the platform admins are willing to support whatever package I may require.
Re Gentoo portage breakage, I've heard from the admins, IRC seems to be the channel for most if not all Gentoo news :) LOL And I think the thread raises an interesting question, what "role" should a modern developer play these days ... I may start a new thread on that! On Tuesday, 24 July 2012 15:36:24 UTC+10, Gregory McIntyre wrote: > > +1 to that. I found that using Gentoo for my servers put the bleeding > in bleeding edge. Maybe if you're more pro than I am it is okay? I > like Ubuntu Server LTS now. > > -Greg > > > On 24 July 2012 10:29, Andrew Stone <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > As an aside, I consistently found Gentoo's portage tree far too unstable > > even for development use (2006-09)... unfortunately the maintainers of > > portage were more than happy to break your system; without even using > the > > news feature of portage to warn of impending doom. > > > > I switched to Arch in 2009 for a short while then on to Debian (testing) > and > > have never looked back since. > > > > Regards, > > Stonie. > > > > > > On 24 July 2012 09:54, marsbomber <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Thanks guys! > >> > >> I'm suspecting the issue might be caused by libxml ... I remember the > >> platform engineer was messing around with the emerge on Gentoo when > >> installing Nokogiri dependencies. > >> > >> I'll dig deeper when I can get more time allocated from the platform > >> engineer :) > >> > >> On Friday, 20 July 2012 20:47:35 UTC+10, Gregory McIntyre wrote: > >>> > >>> That you can run it individually and it passes suggests that there is > a > >>> test interdependency. Any before(:all) calls in your tests? Any tests > that > >>> write to disk? Can you run the entire suite manually in whatever > manner you > >>> ran the single test manually? It would help confirm that theory. If it > can > >>> be reproduced in this manner, things like show_page or a debugger > might > >>> help. > >>> > >>> I agree with Dave - in my experience, the situation you're in has > always > >>> come down to some problem or fragility in either my code or my > tests... > >>> except that time recently when Firefox kept popping up a survey... lol > >>> > >>> -Greg > >>> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > >> To view this discussion on the web visit > >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rails-oceania/-/XUK2oc6suQ4J. > >> > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected]. > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rails-oceania/-/OLNW0thsAt0J. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
