That is a question I get quite a bit, albeit in a variety of different flavors, but the heart of the question is always the same. So, inspired a conversation with my friend Corey, and a certain talk from a recent Ruby Hoedown that he told me about, I decided to clear up the issue once and for all. And to make it perfectly clear, I decided to register some new URLs that are easy to remember: http://whenshoulditest.com http://howoftenshoulditest.com Go give them a read, I think you’ll get...

I’ve been doing a good amount of Ruby development lately and I really wanted to have a dedicated box to use as an internal (w/in my house) CI box… and possibly a staging server to host some Rails apps I was playing with. Anyhow, I had an old, unused box sitting in the basement – perfect! I installed the latest Ubuntu bits, 8.04 (Hardy Heron) and had the box up and running in no time. However, as I intended to keep this box in the basement, without a monitor, keyboard, or mouse, I needed to be able to access...