leftright

leftright is kind of like the redgreen gem. It makes passing tests look green, exceptions yellow, and failures red. But then there’s more:

* It lets you know which TestCase class is being tested
* It shows you the full text of failures and exceptions as they happen
* It skips all remaining tests for a TestCase class if one fails

This release was tested under:

* REE 1.8.7
* MRI 1.8.6, 1.8.7 and 1.9.2
* JRuby 1.6.0 (in 1.8 mode only for now)

JRuby versions earlier than 1.6 and Rubinius are not building on my laptop right now. If you need those, please use 0.9.0 until I can figure out a better way to test these.

Dependencies

Right now this is pretty heavily dependent on Test::Unit. It works in both 1.8 and 1.9, but in 1.9 it is assumed you have the ‘test-unit’ gem installed and properly loaded (as opposed to the MiniTest compatibility shim).

Thanks to github.com/quirkey for Ruby 1.9 help.

Installation instructions

gem install leftright

If you’re on JRuby, you’ll need to install ffi-ncurses to format properly:

jruby -S gem install ffi-ncurses

Example usage

require 'leftright'

class SomeTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
  def test_that_true_is_indeed_true
    assert_equal true, true
  end
end

Then run the file with ruby. Mind you, it gets a lot more exciting with your own tests, specially if they fail. :)

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