Recently I found the need to have Selenium loop through a bunch of commands for different users, each with their own usernames and passwords.

Thankfully, it's fairly painless to setup using the SelBlock plugin for Selenium IDE.

Create a datafile:

[{ user: "ash", pass: "test1234" }
,{ user: "brock", pass: "test1234" }
,{ user: "jessie", pass: "test1234" }
,{ user: "james", pass: "test1234" }
,{ user: "misty", pass: "test1234" }]

If the file is saved in the same directory as the test script, you can use a relative path.

Loop through it and log the username:

forJson varset.json
  getEval LOG.info("user is "${user}")
endForJson

With Heroku's recent changes to their plan offerings, my hosting costs were suddenly about to increase form $0 a month to $42. To run an app 24 hrs a day, you need to be on the hobby tier ($7/month). Not really happy with that, I decided to look elsewhere.

I had previously explored Amazon's elastic beanstalk PaaS, but this time around I wanted to try hosting my own PaaS. Dokku bills itself as being a "Docker powered mini-Heroku in around 200 lines of Bash". After reading good things about it, I decided to give it a shot on a Digitial Ocean dropet.

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After using Heroku for the past 12 months, I decided to try out Amazon's PaaS offering - Elastic Beanstalk.

Setup

I first decided created an application via the AWS console, by following the guided steps. However this actually just creates a sample application named 'My First Elastic Beanstalk Application'. It is not possible to rename it, so there's little point pushing your own code to it.

Amazon provies a Command Line Interface (CLI) for Elastic Beanstalk which was easy to install and setup. Creating a new application could then be initiated with:

eb init

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