Nick Sieger: RSpec Autotest now a Rails Plugin

"RSpec Autotest now a Rails Plugin" by Nick

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:57:21 +0000

mitjok: I haven’t heard of that problem before. You’re saying that it’s missing in rake -T output?

Can you verify that the vendor/plugins/rspec_autotest/tasks/rspec_autotest.rake file exists and has contents similar to this?

"RSpec Autotest now a Rails Plugin" by mitjok

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:57:34 +0000

installed autotest plugin as described above, but spec:autotest did non appear in rake tasks list.. anyone had such problem? rspec_autotest: r69 RSpec-0.7.5.1 r1395 rspec_on_rails r1515

"RSpec Autotest now a Rails Plugin" by Chris Williams

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:52:47 +0000

I had to change @spec_command to:

@spec_command = “spec.cmd –diff unified”

To get this to run under Windows. Otherwise autotest tried to execute the ruby file directly, which causes an error.

Otherwise, seems to work so far. Thanks!!

"RSpec Autotest now a Rails Plugin" by Chris Anderson

Sat, 06 Jan 2007 03:48:43 +0000

Rad! Thanks!

I’m using @spec_command = “drbspec –diff unified”

which I think is just the new version of script/railsspec

Chris

"RSpec Autotest now a Rails Plugin" by Nick

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:32:03 +0000

@Michael: I think this is expected behavior for autotest – I’ve already noticed this and assumed it was standard behavior. The only time autotest reruns the whole suite is after I’ve just fixed a failing test or spec. Is it possible that’s what you’re observing?

"RSpec Autotest now a Rails Plugin" by Michael Johnston

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:45:09 +0000

Since upgrading to rspec 0.7.5, when a currently being worked-on spec passes, autotest no longer reruns the whole suite of tests.

To rephrase: on first run, autotest runs all specs.

after editing a file(s) it re-runs the tests for those files.

If those pass, it USED to then re-run the whole suite of files. But after upgrading to rspec 0.7.5 it no longer does this, rendering it useless as the only way to see the next failing spec to work on is to restart it (or touch everything)

Has anyone else encountered this problem or have any idea what could be causing it?

"RSpec Autotest now a Rails Plugin" by Jodi

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:52:56 +0000

Thank you v-much Nick.

Just making the leap to rspec on a new project - very happy to continue having autotest - and the growl notification to boot.

Jodi

"RSpec Autotest now a Rails Plugin" by Nick

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:37:34 +0000

@Shakhruz: yeah, you’re right, especially about diff-lcs – that should be mentioned. I suppose if I used

File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "..", "lib", "rspec_autotest")

instead that would be more platform agnostic.

Thanks!

"RSpec Autotest now a Rails Plugin" by Shakhruz

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:01:44 +0000

Hi Nick! Thanks for the plugin! I had to change slashes in rspec_autotest.rake, line 3 : require File.dirname(FILE) + ‘..lib spec_autotest’ and make ‘gem install diff-lcs’

to make in work on winxp (yes, i’m still there :))

"RSpec Autotest now a Rails Plugin" by Akira

Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:16:01 +0000

Is there a way to use the rspec_autotest outside of Rails i.e. generic Ruby code?

i.e. autotest can automatically pick up code and test files by placing the files in /lib and /test directories, respectively.

Is there similar functionality with rspec_autotest?

"RSpec Autotest now a Rails Plugin" by Nick

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:39:15 +0000

Well, here’s a patch. I’d be happy to have it included in Autotest, I just didn’t know if you guys thought it was appropriate to have it there.

"RSpec Autotest now a Rails Plugin" by Ryan Davis

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:09:07 +0000

Why didn’t you submit this as a patch to ZenTest???

"RSpec Autotest now a Rails Plugin" by Nick

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:58:53 +0000

@Marc: good idea, I should let you configure whether or not to use rails_spec in the next version. Ticked filed.

"RSpec Autotest now a Rails Plugin" by Marc Beyerlin

Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:01:34 +0000

This is really cool! Thanx for that.

I recommend using autotest with the railsspecserver. This is much faster. You only have to start a reailsspecserver with:

script/railsspecserver

And change the speccommand in rspecautotest to:

@spec_command = “spec –diff unified”

@speccommand = “script/railsspec –diff unified”

"RSpec Autotest now a Rails Plugin" by Josh C

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:07:14 +0000

Wow thanks Nick, been waiting for this!

RSpec Autotest now a Rails Plugin

Nick Sieger — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:46:00 +0000

Inspired by a posting on the RSpec list and recent comments stating that my Auto RSpec hack wasn’t working, I’ve bitten the bullet and upgraded to RSpec 0.7.2, and made rspec_autotest a plugin in the process. So, herewith are the necessary incantations to auto-rspec your project. If you’ve tried my hack already, please remove any bits you previously had installed.

Install RSpec on Rails, following the original instructions. As of RSpec 0.7.3, the specific version of ZenTest is no longer required. Also, diff-lcs is required to show unified diff output on should == failures.

gem install zentest -v 3.4.1
gem install diff-lcs
gem install rspec
script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/rspec/tags/REL_0_7_2/vendor/rspec_on_rails/vendor/plugins/rspec

Install rspec_autotest

script/plugin install http://svn.caldersphere.net/svn/main/plugins/rspec_autotest

Start autotest

rake spec:autotest

Please let me know if you experience any problems!