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Ruby exit, exit!, SystemExit and at_exit blunder

Recently, we hit a problem with Ruby's exit command. If something went horribly wrong and it made no sense for our application to continue in its current state then we would abort with exit 1. We use supervisord to manage processes, so in this case when we exited with exit status of 1, supervisord would assume something went wrong and restart the process for us. Or at least that is what we thought...

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Ruby

Tools for Testing Ruby On Rails

I'm getting stuck into learning Ruby On Rails and the topic of which tools / frameworks to use for testing came up. Here's some notes. I'll be reading up on

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