[rspec-users] scenarios on production data

[Scott Taylor]

On Sep 5, 2008, at 3:11 PM, Matt Wynne wrote:

> On 5 Sep 2008, at 19:14, Jonathan Linowes wrote:
>
>> it just seems to me that  while i'm running my tests on toy data  
>> sets, it could be reassuring to see the same run on real production  
>> data. Or, maybe not.
>> I agree its not real scientific, but neither is the weather... :)   
>> (aka, shit happens)
>>
>
> Can you give us a concrete example of something that you're worried  
> might go wrong?

Well, actually linoj ran into one regarding gems installed on the  
production box.  For some reason ruby2ruby was being required, which  
redefines method_missing on nil to return nil - meaning that if a  
method on nil got called, he wouldn't see it - more then likely, a  
template would just display "nil" instead of raising an error.

Scott