June 2010
1 post
Hydra - good, Hydra on Heroku - not so good
Hydra is a great tool for Rails development as it can distribute your tests to remote machines. In my current project, we’re running Ruby 1.9.1 on Rails edge with RSpec 2.0 beta so not everything works right all the time.
The biggest culprit is having Heroku attempt to install our development and test gems. In particular, if you list gem ‘hydra’ within your Gemfile for Heroku...