Troubles with autotest and rspec2

[Tony Arcieri]

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I'm trying to use autotest in conjunction with RSpec 2. Almost everything
seems to work... with one exception.

If I change any specs, autotest does the expected focused spec on my code!
Great! But if I change the implementation, nada.

It seems like the default mapping that autotest expects between spec files
and implementation files is:

spec/foo_spec.rb => lib/foo.rb
spec/bar_spec.rb => lib/bar.rb

However, I'm following the POLS Ruby gem directory structure, which is:

spec/foo_spec => lib/mygem/foo.rb
spec/bar_spec => lib/mygem/bar.rb

How do I get autotest to work with this sort of directory structure and
rspec2?

And before anyone suggests autospec, it's deprecated as of rspec2. If you
attempt to run the autospec that's installed with rspec2, it tells you
autospec is deprecated and instructs you to install autotest.

 

[Jeremy Hinegardner]

I'm trying to use autotest in conjunction with RSpec 2. Almost everything
seems to work... with one exception.

If I change any specs, autotest does the expected focused spec on my code!
Great! But if I change the implementation, nada.

It seems like the default mapping that autotest expects between spec files
and implementation files is:

spec/foo_spec.rb => lib/foo.rb
spec/bar_spec.rb => lib/bar.rb

However, I'm following the POLS Ruby gem directory structure, which is:

spec/foo_spec => lib/mygem/foo.rb
spec/bar_spec => lib/mygem/bar.rb

How do I get autotest to work with this sort of directory structure and
rspec2?

And before anyone suggests autospec, it's deprecated as of rspec2. If you
attempt to run the autospec that's installed with rspec2, it tells you
autospec is deprecated and instructs you to install autotest.

You can alter how autotest looks at the mappings between tests and files
with an :initialize hook. I'm using minitest/spec and needed to provide
some additional mapping information to autotest to get it to find the right
file <-> spec mapping.

https://github.com/collectiveintellect/ashbe/blob/master/.autotest

I can't remember where I pull this from originally, I think possibly
rspec2.

enjoy,

-jeremy

 

[Tony Arcieri]

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Fixed my problem...

Here's a solution if anyone happens to stumble upon this thread:

https://github.com/shruggers/ChessBoard-Kata/blob/master/.autotest
<https://github.com/shruggers/ChessBoard-Kata/blob/master/.autotest>

 

[Tony Arcieri]

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Heh, thanks for the help as well