autotest configuration about cells HOT 11 CLOSED

Hey Icowell,

what are you trying to do? Automatically test cells? Great! What doesn't work right now?

Did you already discover Cell::TestCase?

Cheers

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Hi, I'm trying to get autotest to automatically run tests against the cell files. I can write tests and run them manually using rake test:cells - however, autotest doesn't appear to know about the cell controllers, views or tests.

I'm running cells 3.3.5 w/ rails 2.3.x.

Thanks!

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Can you point me to the canonical repo of autotest? I can't find it! (Sorry!!!).
That sounds like a good idea and I marked it as "feature", so let's work on that!

from cells.

Hi there, I can't believe it! A widely used project not hosted on github! Haha.

This is the official zentest repo:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/zentest/

from cells.

Thanks dude, I was browsing that today at work when I was exploring Autotest. It looks kinda outdated, are you sure it's the "official"?

from cells.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's official. I think part of the problem is that everything on rubyforge looks out of date. The version on rubyforge matches the version of the gem I have on my computer and it was released on rubyforge Sep 1, 2010. Hope that helps.

I tried doing this myself, but wasn't able to get things working. Anyways, thanks for looking in to this for me.

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Luke-
the .autotest needs the following content to work:

However, we need to fix a bit in autotest-rails: seattlerb/autotest-rails#2

Look what a nice person I am! I even started bugging the autotest guys for you ;-)

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Thanks man!

Here's what I put in the discover.rb file. It provides the reverse mapping to trigger autotest if the test file is edited instead of the cell definition (this might be useful to others).

Autotest.add_hook :initialize do |at|
  at.add_mapping %r%^app/cells/(.*)\.rb$% do |_, m|
    "test/cells/#{m[1]}_test.rb"
  end
  
  at.add_mapping %r%^test/cells/(.*)_test\.rb$% do |_, m|
    "app/cells/#{m[1]}.rb"
  end
end

Everything works perfectly, but if you trigger the tests based on modifying the test file, you'll get this error:
./app/cells/treatment_cell.rb:4: uninitialized constant Cell (NameError)

I tried requiring cell like this:
require 'cell'

However, I then get this error:
uninitialized constant Cell::ActiveSupport

Any ideas ?

Thanks again for your help with all this.

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I had a typo in my mapping definition which is what was throwing all the errors. Here's the updated definition:

Autotest.add_hook :initialize do |at|
  at.add_mapping %r%^app/cells/(.*)\.rb$% do |_, m|
    "test/cells/#{m[1]}_test.rb"
  end
  
  at.add_mapping %r%^test/cells/(.*)_test\.rb$% do |filename, _|
    filename
  end
end

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Where exactly do you put that config? Do you think it would make sense to add that to Cells itself? Or maybe to a separate gem? Or put instructions on its own wiki page?

Thanks for figuring out all that shit!!! :-)

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The config goes in Rails.root + "autotest/discover.rb". I've added some info to the wiki.

I haven't had a chance to test it yet, but I think the second group might need to be:

  at.add_mapping %r%^(test/cells/.*_test\.rb)$% do |filename, _|
    filename
  end

I think putting the information in its own page or in the readme is probably good for now. Are you thinking about making a gem that creates an autotest style called cells-rails or something like that ?

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