if it's running from webclient probably it's on localhost , right ?
usually for tests (and also as a practice for deployment) i save the
relevant bits in a 0_start.py model and change the data there. For tests
you can probably simply switch the 0_start.py with a "custom one" just for
tests.
On Wednesday, November 28, 2012 2:56:56 PM UTC+1, viniciusban wrote:
>
> Is there a way to my app know it is being run from webclient.py?
>
> It would be useful, because in this case, my models.py could allocate
> my sqlite db file in ramdisk to speed up my tests. BTW, if you use
> Ubuntu, you already have a ramdisk in /dev/shm.
>
> This way, my db.py could be something like that:
>
> if not request.env.web2py_runtime_gae:
> if its_running_from_webclient:
> db = DAL('sqlite://storage.sqlite', folder='/dev/shm/')
> else:
> db = DAL('sqlite://storage.sqlite')
>
>
> I've tried using DAL('sqlite:memory') to use SQLite's in memory
> database feature with no success.
> I think that's because the db lifetime is just for one single request.
> Am I right?
>
> Any ideias about these topics?
>
> --
> Vinicius Assef
>
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