On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:13 PM, kaluza_klein <abhassar...@gmail.com> wrote: > One of the ideas implemented to a certain extent and suggested > is by brynary to parallelize testing and using bonjour for auto > discovery of test servers.
Shared test server farms are a lot of work and effort to get right. I was just discussing this with someone yesterday. This is even more so in the ruby world, where the environment can be really touchy (a wrong gem version and everything can fall apart, unless you vendor your entire world or lock down every dependency version, neither of which are very practical - and this isn't even considering native dependency versions such as imagemagick, browser versions, etc, etc). Before going down this road, you should carefully weigh the costs of dedicated test hardware (which is very fixed, especially with cloud computing) against the engineering labor to maintain reliable shared test servers, and all of the associated environment-management issues. Are you really going to save money, effort, complexity, and time in the long run? -- Chad --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
