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Autotest keeps running

March 9, 2011 By

I had an issue with autotest where the tests would just keep running, even when all the tests passed. After doing some searching I found the following code helpful from this post:

Put this in your ~/.autotest, leave out the growl line if you’re not using that.

require 'autotest/growl'

Autotest.add_hook :initialize do |at|
  %w{.git vendor rerun.txt}.each {|exception| at.add_exception(exception)}
end

When I initially tried this code it didn’t work. To figure out why autotest thought it had to keep running I ran the following:

find ./ -cmin -1

This will show you any files that changed in the last minute. I had to add db, log, system and public to the list above. Depending on your configuration you might run into other files or folders that need to be excluded.

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Issue using insert_after/before “ActionDispatch::Static”

August 3, 2010 By

We are currently building a new product on Rails 3 with a couple custom middleware rack apps. Everything is working great on development and we’re progressing nicely. Today I decided to start setting up the production environment and the following error popped up:

No such middleware to insert after: "ActionDispatch::Static"

I had this in my config/application.rb:

config.middleware.insert_after('ActionDispatch::Static', '::API::Throttle')

I received this error while trying to run rake or startup unicorn. After looking around trying to figure out what I was doing wrong I discovered this in the production config.

config.serve_static_assets = false

Essentially what this does is remove “ActionDispatch::Static” from the rails middleware stack. I had no idea that I could not rely on that being there.

Solution, use insert_before ‘Rack::Lock’ instead:

config.middleware.insert_before('Rack::Lock', '::API::Throttle')

Hope this saves someone some time!

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