Sometimes we want to test something in console without affecting website and storing changes permanently.
Rails console has special mode for such situations called “sandbox mode”. It can be enabled using sandbox argument.
rails c --sandbox |
All database changes made in “sandbox mode” will be rolled back after closing console.
By default, CrawlSpider will follow and parse pages determined by rules, but it won’t parse starting url.
If you want to parse also starting url you can use parse_start_url method.
def parse_start_url(self, response): #code for parsing starting url |
Another handy new feature in PHP 5.4 version is built-in web server. Although I use nginx locally, this feature can be really handy when we want to test something quickly, with different configuration.
We can start built-in webserver using simple command
php -S localhost:PORT [-t DOC_ROOT_DIR] |
Optionally we can also specify document root directory with -t option.