How To Install ruby-wait-for-it on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-wait-for-it on Debian 12.
What is ruby-wait-for-it
ruby-wait-for-it is:
Make your complicated integration tests more deterministic with wait for it.
It spawns processes and waits for them so you can integration test really complicated things with determinism. It allows testing long running processes such as webservers, or features that require concurrency or libraries that use global configuration.
Don’t add sleep to your tests, instead read a log file or stdout and match
specific strings.
There are three methods to install ruby-wait-for-it on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ruby-wait-for-it Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-wait-for-it using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ruby-wait-for-it
Install ruby-wait-for-it Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-wait-for-it using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ruby-wait-for-it
Install ruby-wait-for-it Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install ruby-wait-for-it using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ruby-wait-for-it
How To Uninstall ruby-wait-for-it on Debian 12
To uninstall only the ruby-wait-for-it package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ruby-wait-for-it
Uninstall ruby-wait-for-it And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ruby-wait-for-it and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-wait-for-it
Remove ruby-wait-for-it Configurations and Data
To remove ruby-wait-for-it configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-wait-for-it
Remove ruby-wait-for-it configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ruby-wait-for-it configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-wait-for-it
Dependencies
ruby-wait-for-it have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-wait-for-it package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
