Michael Hartl's wonderful Rails Tutorial is now available for Rails 3.2. He continues to outline TDD and BDD using rspec and spork as he did in version 3.0 and adds guard in 3.2. In version 3.0, Hartl includes information about autotest and I was able to get the wonderful growl notifications working. In 3.2, however, he no longer includes autotest or much growl information. Guard is working nicely with spork but there's no notifications. I've ventured out on my own the last couple hours using Hartl's 3.0 and some blog posts but trying to get autotest to work still produces a "LoadError" and a growl notification "could not run tests." Super grateful for any thoughts. I'm on OS X 10.7.3. Here's what I did:
$ gem install autotest -v 4.4.6
$ gem install autotest-rails-pure -v 4.1.2
$ gem install autotest-fsevent -v 0.2.8
$ gem install autotest-growl -v 0.2.16
Gemfile
source 'https://rubygems.org'
gem 'rails', '3.2.3'
gem 'pg', '0.12.2'
group :development, :test do
gem 'rspec-rails', '2.9.0'
gem 'guard-rspec', '0.5.5'
end
group :assets do
gem 'sass-rails','3.2.4'
gem 'coffee-rails', '3.2.2'
gem 'uglifier', '1.2.3'
end
gem 'jquery-rails', '2.0.0'
group :test do
gem 'capybara', '1.1.2'
gem 'rb-fsevent', '0.4.3.1', :require => false
gem 'growl', '1.0.3'
gem 'guard-spork', '0.3.2'
gem 'spork', '0.9.0'
end
~/.autotest
require 'autotest/growl'
require 'autotest/fsevent'
Autotest::Growl::show_modified_files = true
Autotest::Growl::one_notification_per_run = true
Autotest::Growl::clear_terminal = false
Autotest::Growl::hide_label = true
Autotest.add_hook :initialize do |autotest|
autotest.add_mapping(/^spec\/requests\/.*_spec\.rb$/) do
autotest.files_matching(/^spec\/requests\/.*_spec\.rb$/)
end
end
$ autotest
loading autotest/rails
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/Users/[me]/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/ruby -I.:lib:test -rubygems -e "%w[test/unit spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb].each { |f| require f }"
/Users/[me]/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': cannot load such file -- spec_helper (LoadError)
from /Users/[me]/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
from /Users/[me]/programing/rails/rdale_house/spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'
from /Users/[me]/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
from /Users/[me]/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
from -e:1:in `block in <main>'
from -e:1:in `each'
from -e:1:in `<main>'
spec/spec_helper.rb
require 'rubygems'
require 'spork'
#uncomment the following line to use spork with the debugger
#require 'spork/ext/ruby-debug'
Spork.prefork do
# Loading more in this block will cause your tests to run faster. However,
# if you change any configuration or code from libraries loaded here, you'll
# need to restart spork for it take effect.
# This file is copied to spec/ when you run 'rails generate rspec:install'
ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= 'test'
require File.expand_path("../../config/environment", __FILE__)
require 'rspec/rails'
require 'rspec/autorun'
# Requires supporting ruby files with custom matchers and macros, etc,
# in spec/support/ and its subdirectories.
Dir[Rails.root.join("spec/support/**/*.rb")].each {|f| require f}
RSpec.configure do |config|
# ## Mock Framework
#
# If you prefer to use mocha, flexmock or RR, uncomment the appropriate line:
#
# config.mock_with :mocha
# config.mock_with :flexmock
# config.mock_with :rr
config.mock_with :rspec
# Remove this line if you're not using ActiveRecord or ActiveRecord fixtures
config.fixture_path = "#{::Rails.root}/spec/fixtures"
# If you're not using ActiveRecord, or you'd prefer not to run each of your
# examples within a transaction, remove the following line or assign false
# instead of true.
config.use_transactional_fixtures = true
# If true, the base class of anonymous controllers will be inferred
# automatically. This will be the default behavior in future versions of
# rspec-rails.
config.infer_base_class_for_anonymous_controllers = false
end
end
Spork.each_run do
# This code will be run each time you run your specs.
end
