Ahmed Aboulnaga

TestRail

TestRail API is disabled for your installation (error)

Problem: I tried calling the TestRail API to retrieve a case through the REST API. This is my curl command used: C:\Users\ahmed> curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -u "ahmed@revelationtech.com:16JQ1MTMMsEQl4wIeCp" "https://ahmedttt.testrail.io/index.php?/api/v2/get_case/

Functionize

Self-healing with Functionize, and AI-powered test automation platform

Functionize is an AI-powered test automation platform lets you create end-to-end functional tests in minutes. It includes a slew of advanced features and capabilities, but the one I want to focus on in this post is self-healing. Self-healing is a capability used to automatically fix issues in the automated test

ChatGPT

Looking for solutions to errors: Google or ChatGPT?

So I received this error when running my Python code today. I was attempting to read a Microsoft Word document and apparently I didn't have the docx module installed. ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'docx' It's a simple solution to a simple problem. I just

Azure

Error: Requests under Azure OpenAI API have exceeded token rate limit of S0 pricing tier

My Problem When I call the Azure OpenAI API through my Python code, I get this error: openai.error.RateLimitError: Requests to the ChatCompletions_Create Operation under Azure OpenAI API version 2023-05-15 have exceeded token rate limit of your current OpenAI S0 pricing tier. Please retry after 86400 seconds. Please

Tabnine

My initial experiences with Tabnine AI code assistant (hopeful)

So I signed up for the 90-day free trial to Tabnine to explore it's AI code assistance capabilities in a real-life scenario that I was working on. As stated on their website, they support a number of IDEs and I happen to be using VS Code. Instructions are

VS Code

My first time using VS Code for Python development

Visual Studio Code, also commonly referred to as VS Code, is a source-code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux, macOS, and web browsers. Not to be confused with Microsoft's Visual Studio, which is an IDE, VS Code is more of a rich text editor. A Python developer

ChatGPT

Output truncated when calling the OpenAI API

I had some Python code written that called the OpenAI API. For some reason, during execution of this code I noticed that the output was truncated. This was the snippet of the Python code that I had written that called the OpenAI API: response = await openai.ChatCompletion.acreate ( model=model,

Node.js

Installing the npx RPM package on Red Hat Linux

npx is a command-line tool that runs Node.js packages, allowing you to use them without needing local or global installation. Essentially you can use it to run a command from a local or remote npm package. However, npx was not found on my Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 9.

AI

Creating my custom AI avatar in Synthesia

Synthesia is a video creation platform that uses AI to create high-quality videos with lifelike human avatars, even without prior experience in video production. This is what I used to create my interview with my AI clone. Synthesia is extremely easy to use and I don't plan on

Python

Installing a custom version of a Python package with pip3

pip (also known as pip3 in Python 3) is a package-management system (written in Python) and is used to install and manage Python software packages. The Problem I came to install a package called gradio using the command pip3 install gradio as shown: dev@apache-dev:/home/dev> pip3 install

Python

Basic pip3 commands

pip (also known as pip3 in Python 3) is a package management system written in Python and is used to install and manage Python packages. If you are running Python 3 (which you probably/should), the use pip3 as opposed to pip. If you use pip3, you can be sure

AI

Creating a custom AI chatbot with Python and OpenAI API

I spent considerable time trying to follow various blogs out there to get an AI chatbot written in Python using the OpenAI API. All my attempts following blogs here, here, and here were unsuccessful, mostly related to Python dependency challenges. Each had slightly different solutions and I've learned

Linux

My Linux network firewall commands

These are my top two Linux firewall commands that I've used frequently. Open a TCP Port Permanently in Linux Most Linux servers provisioned in the cloud have their local Linux firewall on be default, which has a lot of the non-standard ports blocked by default as well. This

Synthesia

Challenges with Synthesia.io

Synthesia.io is a video creation platform that uses AI to create high-quality videos with lifelike human avatars, even without prior experience in video production. It's what I used for this video. Synthesia is not without its challenges. Here are the list of issues I have with the

AI

Interview questions for my AI chatbot

So I created an AI chatbot in Python (link). I uploaded my custom dataset (i.e., training data) that was used by my Python code. Afterwards, I proceeded to ask specific questions to my AI chatbot and logged the responses. The Python code leverages the OpenAI API, and the total

Python

Using ChatGPT 4.0 to create a basic Python web application

In another blog post, I created a command-line based Python 3 chatbot. This screenshot is an example of how the chatbot looked like with the request-response design: However, I wanted to create a web-based interface for this. I was relatively new to Python to I decided to leverage AI to

AI

Bringing it together - The tools I used to create my AI clone

You may have seen my video interview with my AI clone. You may have seen the multiple blog posts I've posted on the various aspects of this journey. You may have even thought that I was actually engaging my AI avatar clone in real-time using some app on

Interviewing my AI Clone

My book titled "DevSecOps on Oracle Cloud" is set to be published in late 2024. As an exercise in dabbling with AI chatbots and AI video content generation, I embarked on an effort to interview my AI clone, creatively name "Ahmed". Two chapters on Terraform from

Python

Resolving Python packages circular dependency

When I installed the gradio package for Python, it pulled the latest version 4.38.1. pip3 install gradio During the installation it tried to install dependent packages, one of them being urllib3 as shown in the output: Installing collected packages: pydub, ffmpy, websockets, uvloop, uvicorn, urllib3, ujson, toolz, tomlkit,

Python

Python package openai only installs as version 0.8.0

I installed the Python package openai using the pip3 package installer on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 with the following command: pip3 install openai This command installs the latest compatible version of the package, which apparently is version 0.8.0: dev@devhost:/home/dev> pip show openai

Python

Installing/upgrading Python using pyenv

I am running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 and needed to upgrade my Python version. Shown here is my current version that is installed by default on this OS: dev@devhost:/home/dev> cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 9.4 (Plow) dev@devhost:/home/dev&

Python

Cannot find module when executing Python code

I ran this command to install certain Python packages: pip3 install langchain flask llama_index gradio openai pandas numpy glob2 datetime As you can see, flask is included. I then ran my Python code: python3 embeddings.py However, I received the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "

OCI

yum hangs on OCI Linux (8.6)

If I run any yum command on a free tier Linux 8 instance on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), the commands hang indefinitely. For example: yum install gcc-c++ yum update There is no choice but to kill the process id for this process: root@dev:/root> yum update ^C^C^

Linux

Resolving multiple GCC errors installing Python package 'langchain'

I tried installing the Python package langchain on an OCI Linux 8 instance using this command: pip3 install langchain==0.0.27 Error #1 I received the following GCC error where it could not find cc1plus1: gcc -pthread -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -DDYNAMIC_ANNOTATIONS_ENABLED=1 -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=

Functionize

Installing the Functionize CLI

This post describes how to install and setup the Functionize CLI (i.e., fze) and work through some sample usages. Installation 1. Download the Functionize CLI from here 2. Start the installer unzip CLI.zip cd CLI ./install.sh 3. You will be prompted to get the Client ID and