14 Jan 2011 mindcrime   » (Master)

What's New With ScrewPile?


Since the last post, we've made a ton of commits to Quoddy - our Open Source Enterprise Social Networking platform (which is receiving most of the attention right now.) The most recent batch of changes have been focused on LDAP integration and User Profile editing.


Specifically, we've made all use of LDAP optional (the first pass at adding LDAP support actually assumed LDAP would always be present) by finishing up the "Local Accounts" support. We also added LDAP User Import, and we now fully support a mixed authentication mode where both "Local Account" users and (optionally) external LDAP users may log in. We've also started adding some (very) primitive support for editing User Profiles, and we added the very first UNIT TEST! Yes, the intent is to have a comprehensive test suite, but we'd been neglecting that stuff while doing a lot of exploratory programming earlier.


Yeah, it's considered back form to write the code first and retrofit the tests, but in this case we think it's going to be OK. There isn't *that* much code to test.


On that note, after cloning the repo, if you want to see the current test coverage metrics, just

[user@somehost quoddy]$ grails install-plugin code-coverage
and then
[user@somehost quoddy]$ grails test-app unit: -coverage
to generate the coverage report.


Other changes: rev'd the Grails version to 1.3.6, and switched to using Groovy 1.7.6 for development.


And that about covers it. Check the TODO or the roadmap for more on what's coming down the pike.

Syndicated 2011-01-14 03:04:00 from ScrewPile Dev

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