One major pain at testing with culerity so far was a HtmlUnit bug that causes a ScriptException with PUT AJAX requests in jQuery. When you tried to test an update you got a "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The content cannot be null". Fortunately, this bug is fixed now. With latest HtmlUnit build culerity should run fine, and I tell you how.
I assume you have culerity installed already. If not, follow these instructions for testing Rails apps or these for testing Couchapps.
Do you know what's behind these buzzwords: CouchDB / Couchapp / Sammy.js? Not really? Then please look at this article now: Sammy.js, CouchDB, and the new web architecture. The title says it all.
This setup happens to be the field of my diploma thesis, friendly sponsored and supported by Upstream. During the next months I'll develop a super duper thing with these technologies, and then I'll write 80 scientific pages about it. Yees, I'm not that much looking forward to the second part! Until then, I'm planning to semi-regularly blog about my findings.
I'm not allowed to share the code before I have the diploma in my hands. But, because my workmate Frank Proessdorf is so jealous of what I do, he and I started working on an app with a similar setup on our Upstream Research Fridays, to try things out. Here it is. Don't expect anything yet.
Today I'm going to tell you about some details of my testing setup.
Comatose is a micro CMS, easy to embed in your Rails app, ideal when the customer wants to update her FAQ once in a while. I work on a few projects where comatose is integrated, and it's been the second time now that one specific problem has given headaches to me and my colleagues. Time to document the solution.
Comatose has a hierarchical structure. All the pages are children of the comatose root page, which is usually not in use. This root page is created by the migration AddComatoseSupport. When we add comatose to a project, we usually create another migration, where some child pages are created and populated (because the customer usually already knows what pages she wants). This can look like this: