RSpec and Autotest
I am getting all parts of my Rails development environment settled. In addition to vanilla Rails, I am currently using RSpec, Selenium and Autotest. I am seriously considering Haml and Sass as well.
When googling arounf to learn more about Autotest, I realized that people are using together with Growl. It works out-of-the-box with Test::Unit, but RSpec needs a little tweaking. I took the basics from here and modified to my liking. The following is what my .autotest looks like.
module Autotest::Growl def self.growl title, msg, img, pri=0, stick="" system "growlnotify -n autotest --image #{img} -p #{pri} -m #{msg.inspect} #{title} #{stick}" end Autotest.add_hook :ran_command do |at| puts "at: '#{at.results}'" output = at.results.slice(/(\d+)\s.*specifications?,\s(\d+)\s.*failures?/) puts "out: #{output}" if output =~ /[1-9]\sfailures?/ growl "Test Results", "#{output}", '~/Library/autotest/rails_fail.png', 2 #, "-s" else growl "Test Results", "#{output}", '~/Library/autotest/rails_ok.png' end end end





April 1st, 2007 at 8:25
[...] I’ve been using Autotest (part of the ZenTest package) while testing my Rails applications and never thought of asking for more. After all, getting my tests (well, specs actually) run automatically whenever I make a relevant change and having diff-level granularity on which tests Autotest re-runs is pretty damn useful enough. That is, until I came across this RSpec and Autotest with Growl notifications blog entry (on JavaBlogs, no less!) [...]