How to freeze Rails to a older version?

Navigate to project directory and issue the below command.

rake rails:freeze:gems VERSION=x.x.x

Installing MySQL with Ruby Gem

Most of the official guides would recommend to install MqSQL database as
$gem install mysql

This won't work for sure in Windows platform. First setup your proxy. To know more please visit Rails Sucks. And finally after proxy setting setup issue the below command.

$gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-lib=/usr/local/mysql/lib

Install SQLite3 for Ruby in Windows

1.  I downloaded sqlite3 dll zip from
http://www.sqlite.org/sqlitedll-3_6_12.zip and unzipped into C:\ruby\bin
and then ran
2.  gem install sqlite3-ruby -v 1.2.3

Rails Sucks

I've just started to learn Ruby on Rails (RoR). Got stuck when downloading rails behind a firewall. I wonder why Rails has poor documentation regarding the download steps.

Finally I manged to download rails by setting the following ENV_VARIABLE in Windows environment.

HTTP_PROXY=http://user:pwd@host:port

Even more disgusting is the fact, that I needed to change my password couple of times, since my credentials had special characters like @, %, !. Obviously, Rails hated this.

How to crack the SCDJWS ?..

The wikipedia says SCDJWS is the toughest and the most respected Sun Certification.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Certified_Professional#Sun_Certified_Developer_for_Java_Web_Services_.28SCDJWS.29
Very true indeed.

I scored 79% (55/69). Here's the split up.

XML Web Service Standards 80%
SOAP 1.1 Web Service Standards 83%
Describing and Publishing (WSDL and UDDI) 100%
JAX-RPC 85%
SOAP and XML Processing APIs (JAXP, JAXB and SAAJ) 100%
JAXR 75%
J2EE Web Services 71%
Security 75%
Developing Web Services 66%
General Design and Architecture 50%
Endpoint Design and Architecture 80%

Preparation Plan

1. RMH Book for XML Basics, Namespaces, Schemas, SOAP, WSDL
2. Rest of the chapters - MZ notes. - javaboot
3. xyzws.com mock exams

The questions in the real exam were little tough than xyzws mocks. It wasn't that straight forward, but with little thinking it can be answered.

I did practise a little with all the APIs. I hosted a Web Service using JAX-RPC, wrote some schemas and compiled it. I used the tomcat for java web services developer pack.

How to configure JMeter for your Web Application ?..

How to start ?..
From intranet network, we need to pass through the proxy, and here is the command to start JMeter via proxy.
Please navigate to the bin of the JMeter root directory and fire the following command
C:\project\jakarta-jmeter-2.2\jakarta-jmeter-2.2\bin>jmeter -H proxy.network.net -P 8080 -u -a
Create a Test Plan
1. The JMeter's left side pane contains a Test Plan and WorkBench Item.
2. Click on Test Plan Item.
3. Type in an appropriate name in the Test Plan name text box.
Add a Thread Group
1. Right click on the Test Plan Item
2. Naviagate to Add menu item.
3. Click on Thread Group
4. Name the thread group appropriately.
5. Enter the number of threads (users), ramp up count and loop count appropriately.
Add a Http Request Defaults
1. Right click on the Thread Group which has been created.
2. Naviagate to Add menu item.
3. Navigate to Config Element menu item.
4. Click on Http Request Defaults
Configure Http Request Defaults
1. Click on Http Request Defaults which has been newly created.
2. Enter the following details.
Name: give one
Server Name or IP: stage.com
Port Number:
Protocol: https
Path: /
Add Http Cookie Manager
1. Right click on the Thread Group which has been created.
2. Naviagate to Add menu item.
3. Navigate to Config Element menu item.
4. Click on Http Cookie Manager
Why do we need this ? - to be updated later
Add a Http Request
1. Right click on the Thread Group which has been created.
2. Naviagate to Add menu item.
3. Navigate to Sampler menu item.
4. Click on Http Request
Configure Http Request
1. Click on the Http Request item which has been created.
2. Enter the following details.
Name: Login
Method: Choose POST
Path: /security.AuthenticationServlet.serv
Follow Redirects: Check it.
3. Click on the Add button, to add request parameters.
Name Value Encode Include Equals
j_username hello_bosss no yes
j_password password yes yes
Add Results
1. Right click on the Thread Group which has been created.
2. Naviagate to Add menu item.
3. Navigate to Listener menu item.
4. Click on View Results Tree
Configure SSL Manager
1. Download the digital certificate.
2. Goto STAGE URL from the browser window.
3 Click on View button, when the security window pops up.
4. Goto Details tab
5. Click on Copy to File .. button.
6. Save the file to disk.
7. Navigate Options Menu in JMeter dialog screen.
8. Click on SSL Manager.
9. Enter the digital certificate file name with the path in the File Name: text box.
10. Click Open button.
11. Click Ok/Cancel if ask for a KeyStore password. The default password is 'changeit'
Run Test
1. Navigate to Run menu.
2. Click on the Start menu item.
3. Click on the View Results Tree which you created to see the results.