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Comment on Growl, Autotest and RSpec 1.0.8 by Jeremy Weiland

Jeremy Weiland — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:24:03 +0000

Thanks, this helped a lot. I like having a persistent reminder that pending specs have not been written.

Comment on Drag and drop to assign to spaces by Karmen

Karmen — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:24:24 +0000

Very cool! Great tip!

Comment on Growl, Autotest and RSpec 1.0.8 by Eric Wollesen

Eric Wollesen — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:23:03 +0000

Whoops, I typo’d in my previous post. The line:

if output =~ /[1-9][0-9]?\sfailures/

should read

if output =~ /[1-9][0-9]?\sfailure/

Sorry about that.

Comment on Growl, Autotest and RSpec 1.0.8 by Eric Wollesen

Eric Wollesen — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:00:21 +0000

You have a bug in your .autotest file. I had a case where I had 11 examples, and 10 failures, yet autotest showed the success image. Here’s a new .autotest, note the slightly modified regexp for checking for failures.

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 |autotest|
output = autotest.results.grep(/\d+\s.*examples?/).last.slice(/(\d+)\s.*examples?,\s(\d+)\s.*failures?(?:,\s(\d+)\s.*pending)?/)
if output =~ /[1-9][0-9]?\sfailures/
growl “Test Results”, “#{output}”, “~/Library/autotest/rails_fail.png”, 2 #, “-s”
elsif output =~ /pending/
growl “Test Results”, “#{output}”, “~/Library/autotest/rails_pending.png”
else
growl “Test Results”, “#{output}”, “~/Library/autotest/rails_ok.png”
end
end
end

Comment on Growl, Autotest and RSpec 1.0.8 by Lance Carlson

Lance Carlson — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:43:34 +0000

Wait, I looked at your code example again.. wouldn’t that mean inspect is not what you’re looking for?

Comment on Growl, Autotest and RSpec 1.0.8 by Lance Carlson

Lance Carlson — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:42:31 +0000

That’s a good reason! I responded to your comment on my blog btw. Also just doing #{msg} worked fine for me.

Comment on Growl, Autotest and RSpec 1.0.8 by James Deville

James Deville — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:53:33 +0000

That would be due to me copying the initial version of that script from Daniel (link in article). I imagine the only real reason is to ensure that the message gets turned into a full string as follows:

  
begin
  yellow
rescue Exception => e
  "Error: #{e}"
end # =>  "error undefined local variable or method `yellow' for main:Object"

vs:


begin
  yellow
rescue Exception => e
  "Error: #{e.inspect}"
end # => "error #"

Comment on Growl, Autotest and RSpec 1.0.8 by Lance Carlson

Lance Carlson — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:57:46 +0000

I don’t understand why you use msg.inspect. What does that do as opposed to just printing msg?

Comment on Growl, Autotest and RSpec 1.0.8 by James Deville

James Deville — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 02:35:14 +0000

My first guess would be updating ZenTest. I believe there was a update to ZenTest that made it work better with RSpec.

Comment on Growl, Autotest and RSpec 1.0.8 by Steve

Steve — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:45:26 +0000

Hey, I just read your article but have been having difficulty in getting everything working together. When I try to run ‘autotest’, I get this error:

loading rspec_rails_autotest
spec –diff unified spec/models/weather_spec.rb spec/controllers/weathers_contro
ller_spec.rb
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/zentest-3.5.0/lib/autotest.rb:144:in `open’: Exec
format error - spec –diff unified spec/models/weather_spec.rb spec/controller
s/weathers_controller_spec.rb (Errno::ENOEXEC)
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/zentest-3.5.0/lib/autotest.rb:144:in
`run_tests’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/zentest-3.5.0/lib/autotest.rb:127:in
`get_to_green’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/zentest-3.5.0/lib/autotest.rb:107:in
`run’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/zentest-3.5.0/lib/autotest.rb:105:in
`loop’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/zentest-3.5.0/lib/autotest.rb:105:in
`run’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/zentest-3.5.0/lib/autotest.rb:63:in
`run’
from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/zentest-3.5.0/bin/autotest:36
from c:/ruby/bin/autotest:16:in `load’
from c:/ruby/bin/autotest:16

–If you can help in any way, i’d greatly appreciate it! Thanks!

Comment on First whine by JD

JD — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:48:00 +0000

Okay, after playing around and posting this, it finally works. Go figure!