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There have been times where I’ve had the need to perform some custom code when a JUnit test failure occurs. A simple way to handle this would be to catch Throwable do you logic and then re-throw the exception. Not the most elegant of solutions.. but works nonetheless. Heres an example using the selenium rc [...]

The first beta of the ruby plugin is now available for IntelliJ 6.0+.  IntelliJ has proven to be a fabulous Java IDE and continues to be one of the top rated IDE’s on the market.  Adding support for Ruby (and future talk of Python) will go a long way in extending the IDE’s reach.  As [...]

I don’t know about you, but I find the best way to learn / really understand new coding concepts is a step by step walk through.  I recently stumbled across a new site offerring screencasts of text mate, ruby on rails and other interesting topics at PeepCode.comThis is a pay per view type service, but [...]

Can’t seem to get ruby to talk to mysql when using a password.  Seems to be some kind of collision between old / new password models.. not sure… In any event.. a temporary workaround to the following error: Lost connection to MySQL server during query: SHOW FIELDS FROM xxx would be to set password to [...]

You can control the debug output that wine generates by manipulating the WINEDEUG environment variable. A detailed description of available options can be found here Recently I encountered a scenario where running ruby watir tests through wine continually produced the following output: err:rebar:REBAR_MoveChildWindows BeginDeferWindowPos returned NULL err:rebar:REBAR_MoveChildWindows DeferWindowPos returned NULL err:rebar:REBAR_MoveChildWindows DeferWindowPos returned NULL err:rebar:REBAR_MoveChildWindows [...]

The Jakarta Commons Logging package is an ultra-thin bridge between different logging libraries. Components may use the Commons Logging API to remove compile-time and run-time dependencies on any particular logging package, and contributors may write Log implementations for the library of their choice. Levels To Use The six logging levels provided by the commons logging [...]

After attempting to upgrade to the latest MySQL and Connector/J libraries, started noticing the following error in my Jboss logs: “You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘?’ at line 1″ [#13] The following answer was found [...]

For scalability and reliability, many Java developers look to their app server’s clustering features. This article takes a look at clustering in the open source JBoss app server. Tweet This Post