http://martinicity.net/articles_controller.rb/tag?tag=safetynet en-us 40 Mike Blake <h2><b>Curent Mood:</b> Bored with Deleting the Production Database</h2> <p><p></p> <p>I thought I was the only clown working on Rails projects and ignoring the <a href="http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/applications/plugins/config/database.example.yml">warning in config/database.yml</a> and using rake to wipe out perfectly good databases. But I&#8217;ve seen it happen to others now, and enough&#8217;s enough. So I created the <h3>SafetyNet Plugin</h3>.</p> <p>You can install Safety Net in your app, by running</p> <p><code> ruby script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/apptrain/trunk/vendor/plugins/safety_net </code></p> <p>That&#8217;s it. Now, If the <b>test</b> database points to the same database as <b>development</b> or <b>production</b> running rake will display the following message:</p> <p><img src="/images/safety_net.png" alt="safety net"/></p> <pre> rake aborted! The name of your test database matches production or development. </pre> <h3>How it Works</h3> <p><p></p> <p>Purging the poor innocent database is prevented in two ways.</p> <ol> <li>By adding a prerequisite check to the rake script that normaly performs this task.</li> <li>By modifying the fixtures method on ActiveRecord to avoid the same fate when running individual tests with the ruby command. </li> </ol> Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:14:00 +0000 urn:uuid:7d6f994d-0845-41c7-a8ea-09a9157c94db Mike Blake http://martinicity.net/articles/2007/02/07/safety-net Create safetynet safetynet apptrain rails plugin rake rails test database <h2><b>Curent Mood:</b> Bored with Deleting the Production Database</h2> <p><p></p> <p>I thought I was the only clown working on Rails projects and ignoring the <a href="http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/applications/plugins/config/database.example.yml">warning in config/database.yml</a> and using rake to wipe out perfectly good databases. But I&#8217;ve seen it happen to others now, and enough&#8217;s enough. So I created the <h3>SafetyNet Plugin</h3>.</p> <p>You can install Safety Net in your app, by running</p> <p><code> ruby script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/apptrain/trunk/vendor/plugins/safety_net </code></p> <p>That&#8217;s it. Now, If the <b>test</b> database points to the same database as <b>development</b> or <b>production</b> running rake will display the following message:</p> <p><img src="/images/safety_net.png" alt="safety net"/></p> <pre> rake aborted! The name of your test database matches production or development. </pre> <h3>How it Works</h3> <p><p></p> <p>Purging the poor innocent database is prevented in two ways.</p> <ol> <li>By adding a prerequisite check to the rake script that normaly performs this task.</li> <li>By modifying the fixtures method on ActiveRecord to avoid the same fate when running individual tests with the ruby command. </li> </ol> Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:14:00 +0000 urn:uuid:7d6f994d-0845-41c7-a8ea-09a9157c94db Mike Blake http://martinicity.net/articles/2007/02/07/safety-net Create safetynet safetynet apptrain rails plugin rake rails test database