Guard VS wappalyzer

Guard is a Ruby gem that can be used to run test cases automatically when source files change. For example, with guard-minitestand a simple Guardfile, you can run tests as the files are modified.

Text and file processing. Everything from parsing log files and generating reports, to watching folders with the Guard library and doing things with the files.

Perhaps using guard you can automate that https://github.com/guard/guard

It seems like where you are, devs are pushing code that fails in the CI/CD pipeline, which means, if your test suite isn't flakey, they aren't running tests locally. I had this problem too. I work on a rails monorepo, so I use the guard gem to automatically run certain tests when certain files are changed. There should be an analagous tool in whatever language/framework env(s) you're working in.

Check out https://github.com/guard/guard and https://github.com/guard/guard-rspec (if you're using rspec)

Installation guide for guard

Guard is a gem I have some prior experience with; it can be configured so that when a change is made to a file (for example: models/user.rb) it will autorun the associated test file (in this example: user_test.rb). As you can imagine, this significantly cuts down on the time until seeing either red or green tests which is super helpful for TDD and a necessary first part of TCR.

Now, consider this a mea culpa, as I know there are many ways this could go wrong. The guard documentation was also kind enough to warn me as such. This is, for better or for worse, my first attempt at building out a way to TCR in Rails. I’m excited to be able to follow up as I spend more time with my monstrous guardfile and this workflow so I can let you know how it goes.

Two key pieces of guard documentation, one on creating an inline guard and the other on hooks and callbacks. All of the docs were very helpful though!

NPM says wappalyzer is deprecated: https://www.npmjs.com/package/wappalyzer

The Github repo doesn’t exist: https://github.com/wappalyzer/wappalyzer

Ooh and there is a cool Chrome extension called Wappalyzer. It detects which technologies, programming languages, frameworks and plugins are used of a certain website you are currently in.

- wappalyzer

I'm not for sure about how wordpress would get their stats, but I imagine it's something like scan the internet and put "/wp-login.php" behind the base url. If it comes back with the wordpress login page, then count it. At least that's how it seems like hackers find out if you have wordpress from my http server logs.

Also someone posted this thing a while back that does some detection like this to find out what tech is powering the website you are on:

https://www.wappalyzer.com/

I'm not related to them in any way and I don't know how accurate it is but it was interesting.

Wappalyzer is a fantastic tool for easy investigation of back-end web technologies. It's a simple browser extension that can be installed on firefox.

I recommend using wappalyzer. Always very handy.