Do you need to have ruby installed on your server to run Sparkle Framework? From what I understand, the framework just looks for the xml RSS feed on the server and that's it. Am I correct?
From the documentation:
Sign your update (unless you’re hosting your update over SSL):
Sparkle includes a script to help you sign your update.
(from the Sparkle distribution root):
ruby "Extras/Signing Tools/sign_update.rb" path_to_your_update.zip path_to_your_dsa_priv.pem
The string outputted is your update’s DSA signature; you’ll add this as an attribute to your enclosure in the next step.
So, the only reason you would need Ruby is to use the included signing script if you are not distributing your update through a secure connection.
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First of all, I'm new in Ruby. I'm working with the Spotify SDK and it needs a token to swap with Ruby. I've managed to make the script run on localhost but now I want to make it public. What I've done is:
gem install sinatra
# and then
ruby spotify_token_swap.rb
How can I now make this service run on public in the easiest way? Would it possible to use Dropbox public folder or such?
The quickest way to run your code publically (ie. have your Sinatra site accessible on the web) would be to use Heroku. They have a good article on Getting Started with Ruby, which uses Sinatra.
I have some code that uploads a file to Amazon S3, using the aws-sdk gem. Apparently it does an HTTP put to upload the file.
Is there a good way to mock this functionality of the aws-sdk gem?
I tried using Webmock, but the aws-sdk gem seems to do a get latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/ first. It seems that using Webmock may not be the best way to mock this functionality.
Working in RSpec.
If you're using version 2 of the aws-sdk gem try adding:
Aws.config.update(stub_responses: true)
to your RSpec.configure block (usually found in your rails_helper.rb file)
While the above works, it will return empty responses if you don't further specify response content - not necessarily valid, but stubbed.
You can generate and return stubbed response data from a named operation:
s3 = Aws::S3::Client.new
s3.stub_data(:list_buckets)
#=> #<struct Aws::S3::Types::ListBucketsOutput buckets=[], owner=#<struct Aws::S3::Types::Owner display_name="DisplayName", id="ID">>
In addition to generating default stubs, you can provide data to apply to the response stub.
s3.stub_data(:list_buckets, buckets:[{name:'aws-sdk'}])
#=> #<struct Aws::S3::Types::ListBucketsOutput buckets=[#<struct Aws::S3::Types::Bucket name="aws-sdk", creation_date=nil>], owner=#<struct Aws::S3::Types::Owner display_name="DisplayName", id="ID">>
For more details refer to: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdkforruby/api/Aws/ClientStubs.html
There are a lot of ways to mock requests in the AWS SDK for Ruby. Trevor Rowe recently posted an article on using the SDK's native support for object stubbing, which does not require any external dependencies like Webmock. You can also use tools like VCR (link will send you to another blog post) to build cacheable integration tests; this way you can test against the live service when you want accuracy and avoid hitting network when you want speed.
Regarding the get request on latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/, this happens because the SDK is trying to look up credentials, and, if none are provided, it will check if you are running on an EC2 instance as a last resort, causing the SDK to make an extra HTTP request. You can avoid this check by simply providing bogus static credentials, though if you are using something like VCR, you will want to provide valid credentials for the first run. You can read about how to provide static credentials in another blog post that Trevor wrote on credential management (this should also be in the developer guide and SDK documentation).
We use Jira/Confluence as our wiki site. I've had a difficult time trying to figure out how to use the add. I'm guessing i'm missing something very obvious. When I go to this site: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Confluence4r to download the confluence4r file, not sure what I'm supposed to do thereafter. The file contains a module which makes sense why it doesn't do anything when running it. But should I being using the gem install functionality in some way? When I simply try to use it in a ruby script, i get the following error:
conf.rb:15:in `<main>': uninitialized constant Confluence (NameError)
Where I am supplying the information required per the script (URL, user & pass contained the correct values when used):
server = Confluence::Server.new("https://collab.sitename.com")
server.login("user", "pass")
puts server.getSpaces()
Any information how to get the working is appreciated.
Confluence4r isn't distributed as a rubygem, it's just a ruby script you can drop onto your filesystem and reference directly.
If you put Confluence4r.rb in the same directory as your own script, you'd need to require it like this:
require './confluence4r.rb'
You shouldn't need the "confluence" and "confluence-client" rubygems to use confluence4r; it's just a very thin wrapper around the Confluence XML-RPC API.
I'm using Ruby and the Savon gem to interact with SOAP/WS and would like to auto-generate the client request methods from the WSDL in Ruby.
Before I do this, I'd like to know if there's any other Ruby/SOAP library that does this?
Edit: Please note, I already know this isn't available in Savon out the box, in fact my intention is to add in the feature, I'm in the process checking if this exists somewhere else written in Ruby.
Since it's only few days since you asked this question, and I've run into same problem I've decided to create small script to do that.
Download - save as objects.rb for example and run with _bunde exec objects.rb path_to.wsdl_
https://gist.github.com/4622792
Let me know if it works ^^
Take a look at Savon's spec, it has pretty rich testing environment
I think ads_common by Google is relevant to you.
google-api-ads-ruby/ads_common at master · googleads/google-api-ads-ruby
rake generate can create the client libraries automatically from WSDL.
It is specialized for Google Ads, but this notion would be helpful to create a versatile client library automatically from WSDL in Ruby.
I am using the selenium-client gem with Webrat and Cucumber to test a rails project. I have Cucumber set up pretty much as described here: https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/wiki/Setting-up-Selenium
My problem is that Selenium is prevented from performing file uploads. Ideally I'd like to be able to replicate webrat's 'attach_file' method. I tried dodging the issue by using selenium-client's 'type' method to type the path to the required file, but this seems to fail.
Does anyone have a sugestion for a workaround using selenium-client (i.e. not the regular Selenium gem)?
The normal selenium can't do this because browser security prevents javascript from writing to input=file elements. This is a security feature so that your password file doesnt get uploaded to hackers if you go to a site thats been hacked.
http://jira.openqa.org/browse/SEL-63 has the details
I finally figured this out.
You need to be using firefox with the chrome backend, and you need to specifiy an absolute filepath.
I ended up creating a helper module to specify the filepath, and a "fixtures" folder containing test content. Here is a gist of the solution I came up with: http://gist.github.com/214185
Therefore it is totally possible to replicate Webrat's attach_file method!