Autotest::Railsplugin: Use autotest to develop your rails plugins!

This is a work in progress. To date the mappings for this autotest class are working very well for me. Please read the ‘railsplugin.rb’ file for details. The short story is that default autotest does not map well to rails test naming and this class addresses that.

There is Rspec support which will Just Work(TM), if you are using rspec instead of test/unit. The default rspec autotest settings are used.

INSTALLATION

• From your plugin root run this

  git clone git://github.com/metaskills/autotest_railsplugin.git autotest

• You can now use autotest.

  $ autotest

    loading autotest/railsplugin
  

CUSTOMISATION

If you need to customize the exceptions or mappings, create an .autotest file in the root of the plugin and place them in there. An example below of adding a custom exception

  Autotest.add_hook :initialize do |at|
    at.add_exception %r%^\./spec/dont_touch%
  end

HELPING OUT

If you find that this class is not doing what you think it should. Perhaps when you save a file it does not running the corresponding test and you want me to fix it, please do the following.

Email the directory structure of both the library file and the test file you expected it to run to ken *[at]* metaskills.net