Standalone autotest extracted from ZenTest.

As soon as you save a file, autotest will run the matching tests.

Improvements over ZenTest

• -c not run all tests after a failed test passes
• -r use given config file
• -p use parallel_tests to run tests (Test::Unit only)
• -s use any style you want -> alias autospec2="autotest --style rspec2"
• -b use bundle exec to run tests
• -n notify about results (simple + experimental)
• simplified test setup
• simplified packaging
• less globals
• integration tests

Install

sudo gem uninstall ZenTest
sudo gem install autotest-standalone

Optional: Autotest for Test::Unit on Rails

sudo gem install autotest-rails-pure

Optional: ZenTest without Autotest version:

sudo gem install zentest-without-autotest

Usage

• go to project folder with tests
• run autotest

Options

-f, --fast-start                 Do not run full tests at start
-p, --parallel                   Run tests (Test::Unit only) in parallel -- gem install parallel_tests
-c, --no-full-after-failed       Do not run full tests after failed test passed
-v, --verbose                    Be verbose. Prints files that autotest doesn't know how to map to tests
-q, --quiet                      Be quiet.
-r, --rc CONFIG                  Path to config file. (Defaults to ~/.autotest or current_dir/.autotest)
-s, --style STYLE                Which style to use, e.g. rspec, rspec2
-b, --bundle-exec                Use bundle exec to run tests
-d, --delay SECONDS              Delay time from file change to test run
-n, --notify                     Notify about success and failure via popups
-h, --help                       Show this.

Windows needs diff.exe

TIPS

• [RSpec] if you want to use require 'spec_helper' -> rspec --configure autotest

TODO

• add documentation for hooks
• remove globals from unitdiff
• add some automatic notifications e.g. autotest -n -> use any notify library found
• use watchr

License

Autotest was extracted from ZenTest and improved by:

• Sam Pierson
• brian p o'rourke
• Charles Roper
• Shane Liebling
• Erik Fonselius
• Michael Grosser

ZenTest Authors

• http://www.zenspider.com/ZSS/Products/ZenTest/
• http://rubyforge.org/projects/zentest/
• ryand-ruby@zenspider.com

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