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Posts from September 2008

Tarantula 0.0.5 Released - the “Naked Aardvark” release

Announcing version 0.0.5 of Tarantula.
Tarantula is a big fuzzy spider. It crawls your Rails application, fuzzing data to see what breaks. It can verify HTML validation across all your pages, ensure you don’t have 404s, and pretty much anything else you want via custom handlers.
Don’t let the version number fool you, we’ve [...]


Scp or rsync failing with no error message? Check your startup scripts…

The other day I was having issues trying to scp/rsync data, with no real error message to try and debug things. Turns out that any output produced by your startup scripts will break rsync/scp hard. I had some simple ‘echo’ statements print when different scripts were being loaded…turns out scp/rysync don’t like that.
My [...]