test_notifier

DESCRIPTION:

Inspired by http://railstips.org/2007/7/23/autotest-growl-pass-fail-notifications

After using Growl notification, I decided to write my own plugin because I have to work on Ubuntu and Mac OS X and I missed the notification on my Linux box. This plugin works with Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. All you need to do is install the specific notification library for your OS.

Instead of displaying lots of notifications for each failure, I prefer to be notified about the whole test result (you'll have to check your log file anyway in order to clean up the failures/errors).

INSTALLATION:

Mac OS X

1. Install Growl (http://growl.info/)
2. Install the growlnotify script located on the "Extras" directory
3. Open the Growl Preference Page (System > Growl) and activate the options "Listen for incoming notifications" and "Allow remote application registration" on the Network tab.

Linux

If you're a linux guy, you can choose on of these methods:

1. Install libnotify-bin and its dependencies:

   sudo aptitude install libnotify-bin

2. Install xosd-bin

   sudo aptitude install xosd-bin

3. KDE users don't need to install anything: test_notifier will use knotify.

Windows

1. Install Snarl: download from http://www.fullphat.net/

2. Install ruby-snarl:

   gem install ruby-snarl

All

Then, install the gem:

git clone git://github.com/fnando/test_notifier.git
cd test_notifier
rake gem:install

or

sudo gem install fnando-test_notifier --source=http://gems.github.com

USAGE:

If you're using Test::Unit you should add require "test_notifier/test_unit"

If you're using RSpec you should add require "test_notifier/rspec"

If you're using Autotest you should add require "test_notifier/autotest" to the file ~/.autotest

If you want to customize the images, create a directory at ~/.test_notifier and save the images none.png, passed.png, failure.png and error.png.

MAINTAINER

• Nando Vieira (http://simplesideias.com.br)

COLLABORATORS

• jeznet (http://github.com/jeznet)

LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

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