Matt Stein mattstein

Unit Testing for Craft Plugins

Writing unit tests for your craft plugin has not been straight forward out of the gate but P&T is taking steps to fully integrate unit testing and have already added the basic necessities to do so.

Assumed Directory Structure


@craft = /path/to/site/craft
@craftTests = @craft/app/tests

Running a Craft site on Fastly

Fastly is essentially Varnish as a service. Similarly to how Heroku drastically simplifies the running of a web server, Fastly simplifies full-page caching of websites with running with dynamic content.

How Fastly Works

In a nutshell:

Every time there is a request for your website, it is routed through Fastly instead of directly to your backend.
If Fastly has an existing cache for the requested URL, it serves the cached page and your backend isn't touched at all.

Encoding Video

Installing

Install FFmpeg with homebrew. You'll need to install it with a couple flags for webm and the AAC audio codec.

brew install ffmpeg --with-libvpx --with-libvorbis --with-fdk-aac --with-opus

Hyperlinks (a.k.a. HTML-like anchors) in terminal emulators

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Most of the terminal emulators auto-detect when a URL appears onscreen and allow to conveniently open them (e.g. via Ctrl+click or Cmd+click, or the right click menu).

It was, however, not possible until now for arbitrary text to point to URLs, just as on webpages.

The datadog agent runs under the dd-agent user and dd-agent group. This prevents dd-agent accessing the logs in /var/log as they are only accessible by root (or a sudo admin).

In order to allow read only access for dd-agent only, create ACL's and modify logrotate to persist the permissions changes.

You can manually set the ACL with:

sudo setfacl -m g:dd-agent:rx /var/log/<application-name>

This will not persist as logrotate will not re-apply the ACL setting so for a more permanent solution you can add a rule to logrotate to reset the ACL. You will need to create a new file:

	<?php

	function runCommand ()
	{
	$command = 'php artisan queue:listen > /dev/null & echo $!';
	$number = exec($command);
	file_put_contents(__DIR__ . '/queue.pid', $number);
	}

	if (file_exists(__DIR__ . '/queue.pid')) {

	FROM sealink/craftdocker:2.6.2791

	# install plugins
	COPY composer.json /app/
	COPY composer-post-install /app/
	COPY vendor /app/vendor
	RUN composer install

	# node packages
	COPY package.json /app/

	<?php
	// Simply place the following two functions in _support/Helper/Acceptance.php
	// Then you can call $I->verifyRedirect(...) inside your tests

	namespace Helper;
	class Acceptance extends \Codeception\Module
	{

	/**
	* Ensure that a particular URL does NOT contain a 301/302

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	####################################################################################
	# Slack Bash console script for sending messages.
	####################################################################################
	# Installation
	# $ curl -s https://gist.githubusercontent.com/andkirby/67a774513215d7ba06384186dd441d9e/raw --output /usr/bin/slack
	# $ chmod +x /usr/bin/slack
	####################################################################################
	# USAGE
	# Send message to slack channel/user

	This is now part of craft-scripts:

	https://github.com/nystudio107/craft-scripts