From: Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroeder@...>
Date: 2010-01-21T01:59:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Best practices when writing destructive code

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Adam Akhtar <adamtemporary@gmail.com> wrote:
> Im going to be making and removing lots of directories using ruby and Im
> feeling a bit uneasy about it. One of my fears is that a potential typo
> after refactoring, cutting and pasting etc could cause my program to
> delete innocent and system vital directories.

1) Create a VM instance, install your code there, take a snapshot.

2) Fire away -- if something blows up, revert to snapshot. :-)

Cheap virtualization rocks...
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