Comments on: Autotest Growl Fail/Pass Smilies

By: admin

admin — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:38:26 +0000

Conlin, that looks like a great little library. Another weapon in the testing arsenal.

By: Collin VanDyck

Collin VanDyck — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:17:21 +0000

Sweet images, thanks On a similar vein, a while ago I wrote growl-glue:

http://growl-glue.rubyforge.org/

That makes it pretty easy to set all of this up, including images. It also has support for the Pending status as well as Test::Unit and Rspec.

By: Jamie Hill

Jamie Hill — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:57:18 +0000

Rein: Looking promising.

By: Rein Henrichs

Rein Henrichs — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:02:10 +0000

I’ve taken your smilies and written an autotest growl notifier for rspec that actually works and presents a somewhat useful notification. Hopefully Aslak and the Rspec crew will be able to incorporate it (or something like it) into an Rspec plugin in the near future. Thanks for the smilies, by the way. They’re sexy.

By: Jamie Hill

Jamie Hill — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:22:00 +0000

Aslak: I will give it a try especially if you are building in Growl notifications.

I’ve added a ‘pending’ image. If you are going to be packaging it with rSpec would you mind putting an acknowledgement with a link to this site and/or “www.soniciq.com”:www.soniciq.com. Thanks, Jamie.

By: Jamie Hill

Jamie Hill — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:29:58 +0000

Aslak: No problem, leave it with me. I’d like to see the RSpec version in action, I’m still using Test::Unit as I’m struggling to see the benefits of moving to RSpec. I’d like to hear your views on RSpec vs. Test::Unit.

By: Aslak Hellesoy

Aslak Hellesoy — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:51:38 +0000

Thanks Jamie!

Since I’m one of the main developers of RSpec I’m obviously biased, but the main benefits you get are:

* Self documentation. The specs *are* the documentation.
* A different mental picture when you do TDD – your focus shifts and you end up with better code.
* Built-in diff and colours
* Built-in mocking
* In Rails, allows you to test each M,V,C in isolation
* A more natural/DSLish way to write assertions.

Like most new things you’ll only realise the benefits if you try it out

Aslak

By: Aslak Hellesoy

Aslak Hellesoy — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:09:13 +0000

Jamie, could you make a yellow one too? We’ve added a 3rd type of status to RSpec (pending). I’d like to bundle this up in an RSpec plugin and release it, but I’m not very good with Gimp and I don’t have Photoshop.

Cheers,
Aslak from the RSpec team