has_many :thoughts: Automagical RSpec: Sake Spec for your Scripts

Automagical RSpec: Sake Spec for your Scripts

Justin Reagor — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:18:00 -0400

I’ve been trying to attempt at spec’ing every single tiny lil script and bit of code I write a long the way. This means I needed a quick, cross directory/app/project script that would run specs from the current directory.

I love Rake, and I love Sake even more.. and Sake was born to do this sort of system-wide task… so lets get to the code!

Throw this in your ~/.sake and smoke it:

desc 'runs specs in the current project, with its own SpecHelper setup'
task 'spec' do
  require 'rake'
  require 'spec/rake/spectask'

  module SpecBase
    def self.included(klass)
      Object.class_eval do
        require 'rubygems'
        require 'spec'
        Spec::Runner.configure { |config| config.mock_with(:mocha) }
      end
    end
  end

  Spec::Rake::SpecTask.new("spec") do |t|
    t.spec_opts  = ["--format", "specdoc", "--colour"]
    t.spec_files = Dir["spec/**/*_spec.rb", "./*_spec.rb"].sort
    include SpecBase
  end
end

As the description string states, this task encapsulates spec_helper.rb and runs any _spec.rb files in the current directory. This makes it very quick for writing specs for small scripts.

Of course, I try to maintain a convention of naming my spec’s just like in Spec::Rails. So if I’m writing a eat_bacon.rb script, I use eat_bacon_spec.rb as the spec file.

Also note: I’m loading Mocha up there, so make sure to take that out if you don’t need it.

Enjoy, with Sake!

"Automagical RSpec: Sake Spec for your Scripts" by Sebastian

Wed, 14 May 2008 05:21:53 -0400

O my god, what happend to my line breaks?

"Automagical RSpec: Sake Spec for your Scripts" by Sebastian

Wed, 14 May 2008 05:21:30 -0400

Great tip. Is it possible to combine that with autotest? Calling "autotest" calls just "spec YOUR_SPEC_FILES" and not your sake task. I have the problem with autotest that it just gives the correct output if I change the spec-files. Changing the code-files does not give the correct output by autotest. Example ------------------- Directory: CustomerTest customer.rb spec/customer_spec.rb I call "autotest" in "CustomerTest". Output: /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby -S /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.1.3/bin/spec spec/customer_spec.rb ... Finished in 0.005555 seconds 3 examples, 0 failures ------- Do I change the spec file -- Output: [...] 3 examples, 0 failures ------- Do I change the code file -- Output: /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby -S /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.1.3/bin/spec It does not call the spec file Any hints?

"Automagical RSpec: Sake Spec for your Scripts" by Anny

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 04:21:31 -0400

I have wanted one of these forever! THANKS for the great work