Tag Archives: Automation

Using Ruby Subversion Bindings to Create Repositories

Posted on February 5, 2009 by Geoff Lane

Subversion has a default Web UI that is served up by Apache if you run Subversion that way. It is pretty boring and read-only. Then there are things like WebSVN that make it less boring, but still read-only. I got … Continue reading →

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DRY your CruiseControl.NET Configuration

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Geoff Lane

Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) is one of the principles of good software development. The idea is that there should ideally be one and only one “source of knowledge” for a particular fact or calculation in a system. Basically it comes … Continue reading →

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MSBuild Task for PartCover

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Geoff Lane

<![Rant[ I continue to lament the dearth of option for Test Coverage in the .NET world. In the Java world you have open source tools like Emma and Cobertura that are widely used and supported (and many more) as well … Continue reading →

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Tracking Project Metrics

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Geoff Lane

How do you track the health of your software projects? Ideally you could come up with few, easy to collect metrics and have your Continuous Integration system generate the information and maybe even graph it over time. What we track … Continue reading →

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Capistrano and Ferret DRB

Posted on June 19, 2008 by Geoff Lane

This is a bit of a followup to my previous post on Capistrano with Git and Passenger. I decided to use Ferret via the acts_as_ferret (AAF) plugin. Ferret is a full-text search inspired by Apache’s Lucene but written in Ruby. … Continue reading →

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Package Grails DBMigrations in your WAR File

Posted on June 10, 2008 by Geoff Lane

The Grails DBMigrate Plugin is a handy way to give you control over the generation of your database if you don’t want Grails to auto-munge your schema. It works fine in development, but when you create a WAR for deployment … Continue reading →

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Database Migrations for .NET

Posted on April 20, 2008 by Geoff Lane

One of the more difficult things to manage in software projects is often changing a database schema over time. On the projects that I work on, we don’t usually have DBAs who manage the schema so it is left up … Continue reading →

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Start a New Branch on your Remote Git Repository

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Geoff Lane

Git is a distributed version control system so it allows you to create branches locally and commit against them. It also supports a more centralized repository model. When using a centralized repository you can push changes to it so that … Continue reading →

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