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

This is a fork of the ZenTest package to extract autotest from it.

Improvements over ZenTest

• possibility to not run all tests after a failed test passes
• possibility to use alternative config file
• simplified test setup
• simplified packaging
• less globals flying around
• integration tests

Install

Uninstall ZenTest first, or autotest will not be found: sudo gem uninstall ZenTest Install: sudo gem install autotest Optional: Support for Test::Unit on Rails sudo gem install autotest-rails-pure Optional: an ZenTest without Autotest version: sudo gem install zentest-without-autotest

Usage

• go to a project folder with tests/specs/...
• run autotest

Options

-f, --fast-start                 Do not run full tests at start
-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                         Path to config file. (Defaults to ~/.autotest or current_dir/.autotest)
-h, --help                       Show this.

Tips

• you need diff.exe on windows. Try http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html

TODO

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

License

Autotest was extracted from ZenTest and improved by:

• Charles Roper
• Shane Liebling
• Michael Grosser

ZenTest Authors

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

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2001-2006 Ryan Davis, Eric Hodel, Zen Spider Software

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