thoughts on an install test

[Sarah Allen]

So, we're planning on giving people a sticker for a successful install
on Friday night (or before 10am Sat) and anyone with a sticker gets to
participate in the hands-on workshop. If you don't have a sticker,
you can sit in the back and listen or do something else with your day.

So, how do people earn a sticker? I looked over the install
instructions and I think it is as simple as:
1) Verify heroku app (the delete it)
2) create app from template and make sure rake features works

I think I will ask volunteers to have participants demonstrate for
them and explain what is going on as they go, rather than having the
volunteer do the steps themselves.

Or in slow motion....
In their rails app directory
1) type: heroku info
2) go to the web url and verify the app deployed and works
3) cd ..
4) delete the app
5) rails suggestotron -m http://gist.github.com/194076.txt
6) cd suggestotron
7) rake features
after lots of output and no errors (other than test failures), you
should see:
11 scenarios (5 failed, 6 skipped)
81 steps (5 failed, 76 skipped)

Am I missing anything?

Thanks,
Sarah

[Sarah Allen]

Feeling optimistic about this approach, I've documented it on the wiki:
http://wiki.devchix.com/index.php?title=Workshop_Install_Test

still wet cement till tomorrow at 11:30am EST :)

[Sarah Mei]

I think the steps are good. The installation instructions don't have a
lot of information about what you're installing, though. If they're
total novices, the demo test will just be a magic incantation. :)

Let us know how it goes!

Sarah

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Sarah Mei
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