generate configuration for autotest

[dchelimsky]

Add an option to the rspec command to configure a project directory for autotest, and eliminate the autospec command. Something like:

rspec --configure autotest

This would generate autotest/discover.rb, which would tell autotest that this is an rspec project.

[dchelimsky]

Chad and Kabari are working on this (rspec hackfest FTW).

[dchelimsky]

Nobody is working on this now, so if anybody else wants to, just add a comment here that you're doing so.

[justinko]

I got this one.

[justinko]

David, I sent you a pull request before realizing you'd rather have "pull requests" pasted here. I'll do that from now on.

[dchelimsky]

justinko's patch: http://github.com/justinko/rspec-core/commit/291d316

[dchelimsky]

Hey Justin - I applied your patch and got a syntax error

lib/rspec/core/command_line_configuration.rb:51: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting kEND (SyntaxError)

After addressing that, all the specs and cukes passed, but when I tried it on the command line with a pre-existing autotest/discover.rb, I got this:

/Users/dchelimsky/projects/ruby/rspec2/repos/rspec-core/lib/rspec/core/command_line_configuration.rb:29:in `create_discover_file': undefined local variable or method `optionally_remove_discover_file' for RSpec::Core::CommandLineConfiguration::Autotest:Class (NameError)

Wanna take another shot?

[justinko]

Fixed: http://github.com/justinko/rspec-core/commit/81d2be8

Question. Since aruba cannot cover the "gets" method, should I test it with RSpec doing something like this?: http://technicalpickles.com/posts/a-pattern-for-using-standard-in-and-out-in-your-ruby-code/

Thanks David.

[dchelimsky]

@justinko - No need to modify the design like that. This isn't java :) You can stub gets right on the object:

interactor = Interactor.new
interactor.stub(:gets).and_return("this")
interactor.method_that_adds_and_that_to_gets.should eq("this and that")

I generally try avoid stubbing methods on the subject of an example, but I'd probably go for the tradeoff here.

[dchelimsky]

I applied your patch (from 2 comments back) and got the same syntax error, and then got this after fixing it and trying to run:

lib/rspec/core/backward_compatibility.rb:20:in `const_missing': uninitialized constant RSpec::Core::Parser::CommandLineConfiguration (NameError)

[justinko]

I'm getting no errors with HEAD. I created another clean branch, try using this one:

http://github.com/justinko/rspec-core/commit/ff5770e

[dchelimsky]

Works. Merged: http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/commit/f72032432b8fcef5cfa810cb020d8bd2f816a272

Thx!