Nice, Niphlod. You gave me an idea. I can create a tempfile at the startUp() method and delete it at tearDown() to achieve this identification.
I'l try something like that. On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Niphlod <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > > > --
