Lookout-Rake

Lookout-Rake provides Rake¹ tasks for testing using Lookout.

¹ See rake.rubyforge.org/

§ Installation

Install Lookout-Rake with

% gem install lookout-rake

§ Usage

Include the following code in your ‹Rakefile›:

  require 'lookout-rake-3.0'

  Lookout::Rake::Tasks::Test.new

If the ‹:default› task hasn’t been defined it’ll be set to depend on the
‹:test› task.  The ‹:check› task will also depend on the ‹:test› task.
There’s also a ‹:test:coverage› task that gets defined that uses the
coverage library that comes with Ruby 1.9 to check the test coverage when
the tests are run.

You can hook up your test task to use your Inventory¹:

  load File.expand_path('../lib/library-X.0/version.rb', __FILE__)

  Lookout::Rake::Tasks::Test.new :inventory => Library::Version

Also, if you use the tasks that come with Inventory-Rake², the test task
will hook into the inventory you tell them to use automatically, that is,
the following will do:

  load File.expand_path('../lib/library-X.0/version.rb', __FILE__)

  Inventory::Rake::Tasks.define Library::Version

  Lookout::Rake::Tasks::Test.new

For further usage information, see the {API documentation}³.

¹ Inventory: disu.se/software/inventory/ ² Inventory-Rake: disu.se/software/inventory-rake/ ³ API: disu.se/software/lookout-rake/api/Lookout/Rake/Tasks/Test/

§ Integration

To use Lookout together with Vim¹, place ‹contrib/rakelookout.vim› in
‹~/.vim/compiler› and add

  compiler rakelookout

to ‹~/.vim/after/ftplugin/ruby.vim›.  Executing ‹:make› from inside Vim
will now run your tests and an errors and failures can be visited with
‹:cnext›.  Execute ‹:help quickfix› for additional information.

Another useful addition to your ‹~/.vim/after/ftplugin/ruby.vim› file may
be

  nnoremap <buffer> <silent> <Leader>M <Esc>:call <SID>run_test()<CR>
  let b:undo_ftplugin .= ' | nunmap <buffer> <Leader>M'

  function! s:run_test()
    let test = expand('%')
    let line = 'LINE=' . line('.')
    if test =~ '^lib/'
      let test = substitute(test, '^lib/', 'test/', '')
      let line = ""
    endif
    execute 'make' 'TEST=' . shellescape(test) line
  endfunction

Now, pressing ‹<Leader>M› will either run all tests for a given class, if
the implementation file is active, or run the test at or just before the
cursor, if the test file is active.  This is useful if you’re currently
receiving a lot of errors and/or failures and want to focus on those
associated with a specific class or on a specific test.

¹ Find out more about Vim at www.vim.org/

§ Financing

Currently, most of my time is spent at my day job and in my rather busy
private life.  Please motivate me to spend time on this piece of software
by donating some of your money to this project.  Yeah, I realize that
requesting money to develop software is a bit, well, capitalistic of me.
But please realize that I live in a capitalistic society and I need money
to have other people give me the things that I need to continue living
under the rules of said society.  So, if you feel that this piece of
software has helped you out enough to warrant a reward, please PayPal a
donation to now@disu.se¹.  Thanks!  Your support won’t go unnoticed!

¹ Send a donation:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=now%40disu%2ese&item_name=Nikolai%20Weibull%20Software%20Services

§ Reporting Bugs

  Please report any bugs that you encounter to the {issue tracker}¹.

¹ See https://github.com/now/lookout-rake/issues

§ Authors

Nikolai Weibull wrote the code, the tests, the manual pages, and this
README.