Testing with Docker

Docker, amoung it's many strengths, allows for easily testing applications or application code on various different version's of that codes interperter.

Examples

Node.js

host $ docker pull node:latest
host $ cd /path/to/project
host $ docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/src node:latest \
        bash -lc 'cd /src && rm -rf node_modules && npm install && npm test'

Ruby

host $ docker pull ruby:latest
host $ cd /path/to/project
host $ docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/src ruby:latest \
        bash -lc 'cd /src && bundle install && bundle exec rake test'

These examples can easily be repeated for anything from Go, to Python, to Perl, etc., etc.

Enjoy!

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