Did you know? DZone has great portals for Python, Cloud, NoSQL, and HTML5!

DZone Snippets is a public source code repository. Easily build up your personal collection of code snippets, categorize them with tags / keywords, and share them with the world

Alexey Tarasevich

Alexey has posted 28 posts at DZone. View Full User Profile

Continuous Testing For Ruby On Rails With Autotest And Rspec On Windows

05.24.2010

        Install Growl: 
http://www.growlforwindows.com/gfw/about.aspx

Install following gems if you don't have them:

gem install autotest -v 4.2.10
gem install autotest-growl -v 0.2.4
gem install autotest-rails -v 4.1.0

gem install rspec -v 1.3.0
gem install rspec-rails -v 1.3.2
gem install test-unit -v 1.2.3
gem install win32console -v 1.3.0


Create file ~/.autotest

require 'autotest/growl' # enable pop-up windows
require 'autotest/restart' # optional: forces autotest to pick the changes to this file
require 'autotest/timestamp' # optional: shows timestamps for test runs

# filter out VCS files and other garbage to reduce HDD usage
Autotest.add_hook :initialize do |autotest|
  %w{.git .svn .hg .DS_Store ._* vendor tmp log doc}.each do |exception|
    autotest.add_exception(exception)
  end
end

# do not clear console before running tests
Autotest::Growl::clear_terminal = false


Start Crowl (it also has option to automatically start at login).

Start autotest:

autotest


Or for rspec integration:

autospec


Just reminder how to run your specs manually in rails folder:

spec spec


Things that I failed to use successfully:
redgreen gem (uses PLATFORM contant from unknown source)
snarl + ruby-snarl gem + test_notifier gem (it just does not shows pop-up windows)
fsevent gem (MAC only)

More reading:

http://www.railstutorial.org/chapters/static-pages#sec:first_tests

http://github.com/svoop/autotest-growl

Tags: