Basic Autotest mapping/exception configuration bits

autotest.rb

# Actually .autotest and lives at the root of your project, from where you execute autotest
# this is all done in a hook, like this:

Autotest.add_hook :initialize do |at|
  # i don't like the default exceptions, get rid of them!
  at.clear_exceptions

  # exclude stuff that changes between each test, like log
  at.add_exception('log/')

  # i don't like the default mappings, get rid of them!
  at.clear_mappings
  
  # watch some files in addition to what your test framework discovery declares

  at.add_mapping(%r{some/testable/code/(.*)\.rb}, true) do |filename, matches|
    # the true is to prepend this to the list of matches, leave it blank to append
    # this block expects and array of file paths to add to the command line executed
    # this will essentially do Dir[whatever] for you, except with a regexp.
    # oh yeah, and add that additional file we need to run in the test suite:

    at.files_matching(%r{tests/for/my/code/#{matches[1]}_test.rb}) + [ 'some/crazy/test/thing_test.rb' ]
  end
end

    

dicsover.rb

# discoveries define a set of matchings and exceptions
# you override those with .autotest
Autotest.add_discovery { "rspec2" } # or whatever your testing framework provides

gistfile3.md

I always have to hunt for these, so here they are in one place.

Cribbed together from random blog posts from places:

• David Chelimsky's blog entry about the features
• Mike Subelsky's entry about autotest -v
• Random use of the Googles