Yesterday I released version 0.4 of my Ruby PowerDNS development framework.
Version 0.3 was a feature complete version but lacked in some decent error handling in all cases which resulted in weird unexplained crashes when things didn’t work as hoped, for example syntax errors in records could kill the whole thing.
Version 0.4 is a big push in stability, I’ve added tons of exception handling there should now be very few cases of unexpected terminations, I know of only one case and that’s when the log can’t be written too, all other cases should be logged and recovered from in some hopefully sane way.
I’ve written loads of unit tests using Test::Unit and have created a little testing harness that can be used to test your records without putting them on the server, using this for example you can test GeoIP based records easily since you can specify any source address.
Overall I think this is a production ready release, it would be a 1.0 release was it not for some features I wish to add before calling it 1.0. The features are about logging stats and about consuming data from external sources, these will be my next priorities.
