RSpec Autotest for Standalone Projects

Posted by Nick Sieger Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:16:00 GMT

I know there has been some demand out there for a version of my RSpec Autotest Rails plugin that works with standalone (non-Rails) projects, so I finally caved and coded it up. I really hope this does finally get accepted as a patch to ZenTest (nudge, nudge), but until it gets a more standard release, do try it out:

Ensure you have ZenTest installed (gem install ZenTest).
Download the rspec_autotest.rb file here and put it in the spec directory of your project.
Add this snippet of code into your Rakefile, and rake spec:autotest as usual.

namespace :spec do
  task :autotest do
    require './spec/rspec_autotest'
    RspecAutotest.run
  end
end

Once again, happy spec’ing, and let me know of any issues you have with it.

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Victor said about 15 hours later:

Love it! Thanks, Nick.

One feature request: It would be nice to have a task to run it against the spec server which is much faster.

Something like:

namespace :spec do
  task :autotest do
    require_rspec_autotest
    RspecOnRailsAutotest.run
  end

  task :autotest_drb do
    require_rspec_autotest
    autotest = RspecOnRailsAutotest.new
    autotest.spec_command = "drbspec --diff unified"
    autotest.run
  end

  private

  def require_rspec_autotest
    require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', 'lib', 'rspec_autotest')
  end
end

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