Re: first php 5 class

Greg Donald schreef:

On Jan 30, 2008 1:36 PM, Eric Butera <eric.butera@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for your post. Competition is a good thing.

I agree. PHP is the reason we're not all still working out of a cgi-bin.

Have you looked at the PHPUnit code coverage reports? Of course it isn't built in like you say, which sounds pretty nice. http://sebastian-bergmann.de/archives/578-Code-Coverage-Reports-with-PHPUnit-3.html

If you only need to test data integrity then it seems good enough. I would argue that being able to test xhr requests is a basic requirement at this stage in web development.

What is the advantage of having integrated subversion/git? Using stand-alone svn I can manage any files I want within projects using an IDE or command line. Sometimes I don't want to commit directories or new features yet and I can pick and choose my way.

One command cap deploy to deploy all your code to multiple load balanced web servers, recipe style. Supports SSH, Subversion, web server clustering, etc. And the best thing about Capistrano is that it isn't Rails specific, you can use it for any sort of code rollout. The recipes are written in Ruby not some silly contrivance like XML.

I woke up from disturbed sleep thinking about how to manage stuff like syncronized webserver restarts, config testing, caching clearance, etc. I was going to ask but you've just pretty much answered the question ... I guess it really is time to dust off those Ruby books and actually read them :-) Greg's my hero of the day - even if he has been banging the Ruby drum on the PHP Stage half the night ;-) one thing I would offer as a solution to rolling out code to multiple servers, GFS - as in all the load-balanced webservers 'mount' a GFS (http://www.redhat.com/gfs/) and all the code/etc is on that - this means rolling out on one machine automatically makes the new version available to all machines.

-- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/