Run gem install of activerecord with greater verbosity

We keep getting activerecord gem installation problems, this patch changes
the verbosity of that installation so we can possibly see what is going
wrong. As this is intermittent its hard to test it in an isolated way, so
leaving this modification in source until it happens again seems a reasonable
approach.

Signed-off-by: Ken Barber <ken@bob.sh>
Merge pull request #764 from kbarber/maint/1.5.x/increase_verbosity_of_gem_install

Run gem install of activerecord with greater verbosity
Set a default timeout for sleep_until_queue_empty

During acceptance test writing, this method may spin forever if the queue
doesn't clear properly (due to a fault often in the authors code most
probably).

To stop this from happening, we should set a reasonable default for this,
as we should constrain all tests from infinitely looping if we can. While
the parameter can be overriden at usage time, having a default will mean
infinite loops don't occur by accidental misusage.

Signed-off-by: Ken Barber <ken@bob.sh>
Merge pull request #765 from kbarber/maint/1.5.x/set-a-default-timeout-for-sleep_until_queue_empty

Set a default timeout for sleep_until_queue_empty
Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/1.5.x'