Awesome, Sean! Thanks!!! - Keith
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Sean Cribbs <s...@basho.com> wrote: > Keith, > If this is just testing (e.g. Test::Unit or RSpec), I encourage you to use > the Riak::TestServer instead (which you can also use from irb if you like). > It will create a "phantom" node that uses the same code/runtime as your > existing Riak installation, but exists completely separately and uses an > in-memory backend so that it is trivial to wipe its data. The docs for it > are here (although they could use some > improvement): http://seancribbs.github.com/ripple/Riak/TestServer.html > In IRB I might do this to get it started: > require 'riak/test_server' > server = Riak::TestServer.new(:bin_dir => "/opt/local/riak/bin", :temp_dir > => "~/riaktest") > server.prepare! > server.start > Then when you want to wipe the data: > server.recycle > If you're using Ripple in a Rails 3 project, `rails generate ripple` will > generate all of this for you and add it to your chosen testing framework. > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Keith Bennett > <keith.benn...@lmnsolutions.com> wrote: >> >> All - >> >> I have some test procedures that require that I start with an empty data >> store and end with the data exactly as it was before the test. >> >> The brute force approach I'm taking now is to: >> >> * shut down riak >> * rename the data/bitcask directory >> * start riak >> * run my test and validate the results in riak >> * shut down riak >> * move the saved bitcask-xyz dir to bitcask again >> * start riak >> >> As you can see, I *really* want to start with no data, and end with no >> changes to the existing data. Of course, if other users were accessing >> riak, this wouldn't work, but this is a test environment over which I have >> control. >> >> My problem is that it takes a little time after running riak start or stop >> for the operation to complete, and so I have to insert a sleep afterwards so >> that the next step in the code is not performed prematurely. Is there a way >> using the Ruby Riak client to know for sure whether or not riak is ready for >> action? I could loop every fraction of a second, or, if there were a >> blocking call, that would be even better. >> >> That said, the shutting down and restarting is pretty drastic action. Is >> there a faster/easier/better way to accomplish what I want to do? >> >> Thanks, >> Keith >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> riak-users mailing list >> riak-users@lists.basho.com >> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > > > > -- > Sean Cribbs <s...@basho.com> > Developer Advocate > Basho Technologies, Inc. > http://www.basho.com/ > _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
