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• firebug lite 1.2 is out

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We upgraded to rails 2.1 and polonium and our rspecs are not running on CI, but run fine if you simply use rake on the command line.

Check to see if you are using the rake extensions in pivotal core bundle.

Using setTimeout() to wait for DOM to update in JsUnit does not work.

Using setTimeout in tests is not going to do what you want, unless you mock setTimeout. Basically, setTimeout kicks off another thread which is not likely to effect the current test.

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• There was war story told involving software that's not generally available. However, one tidbit that may be of general interest is a reminder that you don't necessarily get a perfect copy of your mysql database when restoring from a dump of that database. Mysqldump by default writes the data of each table preceded by a DROP TABLE IF EXISTS and a CREATE TABLE statement. This covers you in most situations, but misses when new tables have been created since the dump was made -- those new tables are not deleted. They may not cause problems, but some systems are sensitive to the existence of those tables, such as rails and the schema_info and schema_migrations tables.

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• question: Is merb hosting different from rails hosting?
  • answer: no