How do I configure Autotest to run all tests whenever a file changes in either lib/ or spec/?

[Nerian]

I have a Sinatra app with the code inside lib/ and the tests inside spec/.

How do I configure Autotest to run all tests whenever a file changes in either lib/ or spec/?

[grosser]

Should be the default behavior, did you try with --style rspec / --style rspec2 ?

[Nerian]

I have two spec files inside spec/.

• user_spec
• login_spec

When I do changes inside user_spec nothing happens.

When I do changes in login_spec the tests inside that file get executed.

.autotest

require "autotest/bundler"
require 'autotest/growl'
require 'autotest/fsevent'
require "autotest/restart"

Autotest::Growl::one_notification_per_run = true
Autotest::Growl::remote_notification = true

Autotest.add_hook :initialize do |autotest|
  %w{.git .DS_Store tmp log}.each do |exception|
    autotest.add_exception(exception)
  end
end

# Override autotest default magic to rerun all tests every time a
# change is detected on the file system.
class Autotest

  def get_to_green
    begin
      rerun_all_tests
      wait_for_changes unless all_good
    end until all_good
  end

end

login_spec.rb

require_relative '../spec_helper'

describe "Login" do
  describe "A user" do
    describe "should be able to log in" do
      it "and then see the home page" do
        pending()
        visit('/')
        within("#menu") do
          page.should have_content('Nottion')
        end        
      end
    end
  end
end

user_spec.rb

require_relative '../spec_helper'

describe "As an User" do
  describe "when I access the home page" do
    describe "if am not authenticated" do
      it "I should not see the home page" do
        pending()
        visit '/'
        page.should_not have_selector('#menu')
      end

      it "I should be redirected to the login page" do
        pending()
        visit '/'        
      end
    end
  end
end

Output:

davinci git:(master) ✗ bundle exec autotest --style rspec2
loading autotest/rspec2

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

bundle exec /Users/Nerian/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-rc1/bin/ruby -S /Users/Nerian/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-rc1@davinci/gems/rspec-core-2.6.4/bin/rspec --tty '/Users/Nerian/Projects/davinci/spec/acceptance/user_spec.rb'
**

Pending:
  As an User when I access the home page if am not authenticated I should not see the home page
    # No reason given
    # ./spec/acceptance/user_spec.rb:6
  As an User when I access the home page if am not authenticated I should be redirected to the login page
    # No reason given
    # ./spec/acceptance/user_spec.rb:12

Finished in 0.00084 seconds
2 examples, 0 failures, 2 pending

[grosser]

no idea :<

[Nerian]

I removed this from .autotest and everything worked as expected :)

Autotest.add_hook :initialize do |autotest|
  %w{.git .DS_Store tmp log}.each do |exception|
    autotest.add_exception(exception)
  end
end

I don't understand why that causes any problem, though.

[grosser]

seems like the matchin is roken, can you pinpoint it to any of %w{.git .DS_Store tmp log} ?

[Nerian]

Seems that log is the troublemaker

[grosser]

thats kind of weird... are you brave enough to go poke in the code, so this gets fixed for good ? :)