Elite Frontier

Cucumber sets the RAILS_ENV to ‘cucumber’, so this means that any yaml configuration files that use RAIL_ENV will need to be modified to handle RAILS_ENV being set to ‘cucumber’.

Be sure to check your YAML files as follows:

cd <RAILS_ROOT>/config
grep -R RAILS_ENV *.yml

Be sure to check your initializers and environment code

cd <RAILS_ROOT>/config
grep -R RAILS_ENV *.rb

Now that Rails 3.0 has been released, rspec and cucumber are version numbers are moving forward. If you’re still supporting a Rails 2.3.8 app and need rspec and cucumber, here is the gem list:

rspec (1.3.0)
rspec-rails (1.3.2, 1.3.0)
gherkin (2.2.9, 2.1.5)
cucumber (0.8.5)
cucumber-rails (0.3.2)
capybara (0.4.0)
database_cleaner (0.6.0)

Installation

rails -d postgresql kuketest
cd kuketest
vi config/database.yml
ruby script/generate rspec
ruby script/generate cucumber --rspec --capybara

If desired, add factory_girl

sudo gem install factory_girl -v 1.2.4

Before testing the cucumber features, make sure you have prepared the test database:

rake db:test:prepare

You’ll need to install the following, to support Capybara, on Debian Systems:

apt-get install libxml2-dev
apt-get install libxslt-dev

gem install builder

cd /usr/local/src
git clone git://github.com/user/gem

cd  /usr/local/src/gem_src
gem build the_gem.gemspec

cd  /usr/local/src/gem_src
cp the_gem.gem   /var/www/gemsite/gem

cd /var/www/gemsite
gem generate_index -d /var/www/gemsite

The mysql gem is used for performance, since it provides mysql C binding for use by Ruby on Rails or Ruby programs.

sudo port  install mysql5 mysql5-server mysql5-devel

sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install mysql -v 2.7 \
-- --with-mysql-config=/opt/local/bin/mysql_config5

The latest declarative_authorization uses requires the use Ruby 1.8.7 and is incompatible with the Heroku Aspen stack, therefore if you are on the Aspen stack, you must migrate to the Bamboo stack that has Ruby 1.8.7.

After you have migrated to the Bamboo stack, you will find that your Heroku app will not start, this is because incompatible gems have been pulled in, which conflict with Rack 1.1.0, when Heroku adds the declarative_authorization gem.

To prevent pulling in the incompatible gems, specify in the .gems file:

declarative_authorization --ignore-dependencies

For more details: http://docs.heroku.com/rails236

System Agent AI “Agent Smith” is now online!

In case you didn’t know, the Agents are there to keep order and prevent the Players from becoming ‘Neo’ and hacking the game world, from inside. NPC System Agents will patrol the system looking for anomalies and punish those that attempt to overthrow or hack the game world.

Daimoku Multi-Programmer Online is an environment written in Ruby and ActiveRecord and implemented using Why’s Freaky-Freaky Sandbox. Daimoku allows multiple Ruby programmers to chat, share code and objects in real-time in an EW-Two-style environment.

Visit http://daimoku.elitefrontier.org for more information

Daimoku Multi-Programmer Online is an environment written in Ruby and ActiveRecord and implemented using Why’s Freaky-Freaky Sandbox. Daimoku allows multiple Ruby programmers to chat, share code and objects in real-time in an EW-Two-style environment.

System Agent AIs

NPC System Agents are now online. The only thing left is to program their AI to look for game world anomalies.

In case you didn’t know, the Agents are there to keep order and prevent the Players from becoming ‘Neo’ and hacking the game world, from inside. NPC System Agents will patrol the system looking for anomalies and punish those that attempt to overthrow or hack the game world.

Alpha Testers Wanted

If you’re interested in being an alpha tester and messing around with the system, send an e-mail to [rdegraci @ gmail com] with the subject “Request Daimoku Alpha Test”.

Any questions? Just ask in the comments.