A tox plugin to run an arbitrary command in a tox managed virtualenv.
- Example:
tox -e py27 --run-command "server --port 8080"
In the example tox will will run server --port 8080 inside of the py27
virualenv.
Notes:
- Any env defined in your tox.ini will work
- The env will be created if it doesn't exist (just like tox normally does)
- The commands from your tox.ini will not be run and instead the command you wanted to run is run
- tox substitutions will also work.
(e.g.
tox -e py27 --run-command "server --config={homedir}/server.conf")
Almost all of the projects I work on use tox for test automation. Many
of those projects, one such example is Keystone, carry custom Python
and/or shell scripts to create virtualenvs to run server processes for
manual testing. Other projects advise the developer to create a tox
virtualenv by running tox -e py27 --notest and then running the
server from within that virtualenv like .tox/py27/bin/server --port
8080.
Both of those options suck. Since I couldn't find a tool that already existed to do this, I created one using the new tox plugin API.