On 13 Aug 2010, at 17:34, Bob wrote:
Testing - Cucumber, RSpec, and ApacheBenchmark. Using Cucumber for the high-level tests and RSpec for low-level ones and AB for load- testing. I was one of the people that learned Ruby and Rails and ignored the testing features for a long time but I'm on board now and believe this to be a good testing suite.
I agree, we use RSpec for unit testing, Cucumber + Selenium for integration tests (because our app uses a huge amount of client side javascript)
Fixture-Creation - I am unfamiliar with this outside of rails fixtures. I have been told that they aren't the best way to go and that I should look into Factory Girl or Machinist as a replacement.
Factory Girl is nice, that's what we use. Machinist is certainly just as good. It all depends on what syntax you prefer. They're certainly both better than Rails fixtures.
Version-Control - I currently use SVN, but would be interested in hearing arguments for learning Git.
Git has several advantages over SVN. Since it's a distributed version control system, you can just commit locally (even when not connected to the net), then push the changes to a central server. Where Git excels over SVN imo is the branching. In SVN branching and merging was a living hell, git just makes it something you use all the time. It's hard to explain why git is so much better, but once you've experienced a few of subversion's annoying quirks and tried out git, you'll never look back. Use either github or gitosis (on your own server) for repo management.
Deployment - Capistrano...is there anything better?
Capistrano has never failed us. There's a few alternatives like Vlad The Deployer and Fabric, but I see no reason to switch from Capistrano.
WebServer - I currently use Apache & Mongrel. I've heard/read good things about Passenger and Nginx though. Is it worth switching to a Passenger / Nginx solution or maybe some hybrid?
You could also use Apache+Passenger. Nginx is less memory hungry than Apache. What's really nice about Passenger is the smart spawning and you have one (or more if you're using a mongrel cluster) process and possible point of failure to take into account.
Document-Generation - I have used both pdf-writer and prawn for PDFs in the past. I have some windows projects that have generated word and excel docs via win32ole. I spent a minimal amount of time trying to generate OpenOffice docs but never had the proper time to devote to getting it working.
We use PrinceXML for PDF generation, but it's expensive. I know someone who has succesfully created Word documents with OpenOffice, but haven't got any experience doing so myself.
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