Automated testing for tutorials

[steve-chavez]

Just saw this: http://www.haskellforall.com/2020/11/how-to-use-nixos-for-lightweight.html

Really interesting, automated testing with Nix for tutorials. Could be a future enhancement for the docs.

[wolfgangwalther]

That looks cool, I agree. I skimmed through the article and am I confused by the conclusion:

The noinherit setting prevents the authenticator user from automatically assuming all permissions associated with the web_anon user. Instead, the authenticator user has to explicitly use the SET ROLE command to assume such permissions, and we can verify that at the database prompt:
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Mystery solved! We can test our hypothesis by changing that noinherit to inherit:

That doesn't make sense to me. We are using SET ROLE and definitely want NOINHERIT. Or not? Is something still wrong with the tutorial right now?

[steve-chavez]

We are using SET ROLE and definitely want NOINHERIT

Yes, I think so too.

Is something still wrong with the tutorial right now?

You know I'm not sure 😮. The blog post has a point in that, I haven't run the tutorial for a while.

[steve-chavez]

Perhaps the NOINHERIT issue is related to this recent comment: PostgREST/postgrest#989 (comment)

(Just noticed that that points to our auth page, which is outdated)