Ruby on Rails, JRuby, AWS, EC2, Exalead - RSpec, autotest and Snarl on Windows Comments

Comment on 'RSpec, autotest and Snarl on Windows' by Rob Anderton

2010-02-01T08:47:49Z

I haven't seen any autotest plugins that do this yet, but you could write something that makes use of the Snarl Network Protocol to send notifications to your Windows box.

Comment on 'RSpec, autotest and Snarl on Windows' by marcel

2010-01-21T21:06:39Z

I develop on a windows XP box, but I run my tests on a linux box. How can I get autotest running on the linux box to send the snarl messages to my windows snarl client?

Comment on 'RSpec, autotest and Snarl on Windows' by Rob Anderton

2009-07-11T22:01:48Z

Thanks Karl - I'll check that out next time I'm doing some autotesting :)

Comment on 'RSpec, autotest and Snarl on Windows' by Karl O'Keeffe

2009-07-10T10:58:28Z

I've forked the autotest-growl gem to add support for Growl for Windows.

You can check out the post on my blog:

http://monket.net/blog/2009/07/autotest-growl-for-windows/

Comment on 'RSpec, autotest and Snarl on Windows' by Valentine

2008-12-13T23:33:43Z

Thanks Rob! that's really helps!

Comment on 'RSpec, autotest and Snarl on Windows' by Rob Anderton

2008-12-06T16:55:58Z

If you're on a newer version of RSpec (1.1.5 or newer) then you should use the autospec command instead of autotest, from the RSpec changelog:

Version 1.1.5 / 2008-09-28
IMPORTANT: use the new 'autospec' command instead of 'autotest'. We changed the way autotest discovers rspec so the autotest executable won't automatically load rspec anymore. This allows rspec to live side by side other spec frameworks without always co-opting autotest through autotest's discovery mechanism.

Comment on 'RSpec, autotest and Snarl on Windows' by zaj

2008-12-02T19:19:49Z

I've followed the instructions here on 2 projects now and always run into a problem... when I run autotest from my app's root directory, I get a line that says:

"loading autotest/rails"

and it just hangs there.

I'm on Vista and running rails 1.2.6.

Any ideas?

Comment on 'RSpec, autotest and Snarl on Windows' by Andrew

2008-05-18T01:22:10Z

If anyone is looking for instructions on how to get autotest working with snarl without rspec then have a look at my blog here

Comment on 'RSpec, autotest and Snarl on Windows' by Rob Anderton

2008-05-17T17:36:25Z

@Evan: are you trying to run this in cygwin or something? If so, is sh installed and in your path?

Comment on 'RSpec, autotest and Snarl on Windows' by Andrey Viana

2008-05-15T13:32:06Z

Excellent post!

I am grateful for this post, is helped me a lot to set the RSpec, the autotest and Snarl in Windows, very good, thanks.

Success for you!

Comment on 'RSpec, autotest and Snarl on Windows' by Evan

2008-05-08T17:27:01Z

Hi, i have followed your tutorial exactly, but when i type in the command:

$ . autotest

I get this error:

sh.exe": require: command not found sh.exe": version: command not found sh.exe": /c/ruby/bin/autotest: line 11: syntax error near unexpected token (' sh.exe": /c/ruby/bin/autotest: line 11:if ARGV.first =~ /^(.*)$/ and Gem::Ve rsion.correct? $1 then'

i would really appreciate any help! thanks.

Comment on 'RSpec, autotest and Snarl on Windows' by kunzmann

2008-02-28T03:42:31Z

The following post might be relevant for those who are having the never-failing problem:

http://rspec.lighthouseapp.com/projects/5645/tickets/279-autotest-never-calls-the-red-hook

Comment on 'RSpec, autotest and Snarl on Windows' by Jens

2008-02-26T03:22:49Z

Having the same problem as Trent N, failed test don't display properly...Something wrong with the :red hook? My spec.opts file is as follows:

--format progress --loadby mtime --reverse

Comment on 'RSpec, autotest and Snarl on Windows' by Rob

2008-01-29T10:20:40Z

Take a look at this Microsoft KB article. In step 4 of their instructions click the new button for a user environment variable, the variable name should be HOME and the value should be set to the folder where Windows stores your settings. If you’re not sure what this folder name should be then open a command prompt window and type set userprofile - you should see something like this:

set userprofile
USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\Rob

This means you can set the value of the HOME environment variable to %USERPROFILE% (this screenshot may help).

I think the process is the same for Windows 2000, 2003 and XP, but I’ve not yet tried Vista so I don’t know if they’ve changed anything there.
Rob

Comment on 'RSpec, autotest and Snarl on Windows' by mindtonic

2008-01-28T19:14:01Z

Set the HOME user environment variable to your user profile directory, for example on my system it is set to: C:\Documents and Settings\Rob

???? I have no idea what this means, and of course Windows documentation is useless... any pointers or suggestions

Comment on 'RSpec, autotest and Snarl on Windows' by Rob

2008-01-02T11:30:16Z

What does your spec.opts file look like? I vaguely remember having a similar problem when I first started using autotest with RSpec - I think it was the --colour option that caused it.

Comment on 'RSpec, autotest and Snarl on Windows' by Trent N

2007-12-31T12:46:25Z

I cannot get Snarl to give me a negative response. I followed the instructions, and tested:

100.should > 200

The autotest console gives a bunch of error messages, but Snarl keeps telling me that my tests passed. Anyone else having this problem, or know what could be going wrong?

Comment on 'RSpec, autotest and Snarl on Windows' by Rob

2007-12-29T10:31:35Z

Hi Peter

That’s a good question! I’ve double checked my original scribbles and this is what my notes say:

The GNU diff utility is listed in the ZenTest requirements for Windows.
The diff-lcs gem is used by RSpec if you use the --diff option in your spec.opts file.

I’d say that if you don’t plan to use --diff with RSpec then you won’t need the diff-lcs gem but I’m not sure if the autotest part of ZenTest needs the GNU diff utility so I don’t know if you could get away without installing it.

Rob

Comment on 'RSpec, autotest and Snarl on Windows' by Peter Clark

2007-12-29T03:19:40Z

Rob - Thanks for the post.

Was wondering why you include diff-lcs and GNU DiffUtils in these instructions?

Comment on 'RSpec, autotest and Snarl on Windows' by Rob

2007-12-27T09:40:09Z

@Shoaib: Thanks for pointing that out - I've updated the post.

Comment on 'RSpec, autotest and Snarl on Windows' by Shoaib

2007-12-26T02:59:12Z

To get the icons working had to change the icons folder path in step 7 to

$RUBY_HOME\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\ZenTest-3.6.1\lib\icons

Comment on 'RSpec, autotest and Snarl on Windows' by Rob Anderton

2007-12-18T08:51:39Z

@Brian

Unfortunately the Windows console doesn't easily support all the pretty colours like the Mac consoles used in many Rails tutorials. You can get colours for your tests though: take a look at the RedGreen gem.

@Luis and @Mike

Thanks – I’m glad to help!

Comment on 'RSpec, autotest and Snarl on Windows' by Mike Riley

2007-12-18T03:27:54Z

I just wanted to let you know that I have struggled with getting this to work for about 3 days until I found this post. I followed your steps and it is working beautifully. I was really close, just missing a few steps. Thanks for taking the time to do this. This was sorely missing.

Comment on 'RSpec, autotest and Snarl on Windows' by Brian Corrales

2007-12-17T15:34:52Z

Thanks for the post. I was wondering why things were not working on my windows box. I'm currently using InstantRails and use a simple command prompt to run commands. I noticed that the command prompt doesn't give you the same colors/effects that have been discussed here and elsewhere. What's the secret?

Comment on 'RSpec, autotest and Snarl on Windows' by Luis Lavena

2007-12-10T20:53:15Z

Excellent post Rob!

I'm glad someone took the time to write a tutorial for this!

And welcome to the BDD-with-Ruby-on-Windows world! :-D