Category Archives: autotest

Taming the autotest Beast with FSEvents

By aizatto | November 28, 2007

autotest is a great tool and all, but it is simply resource intensive. Due to autotest’s implementation, it eats up CPU resources, not because the tests are always running (only after you modify your file), but because autotest continually polls each file in your directory, and sub directories, and checks to see if it [...]

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autotest-ting your Rails Application with Visual and Audio Feedback using Growl and mpg321

By aizatto | November 19, 2007

autotest is a commandline tool that comes packaged together with ZenTest. Designed to continually test your Rails application, autotest makes a slight notch easier by removing the need to repeatedly call the rake task to run your application’s various tests.
Note: autotest is not limited to the default Ruby Test::Unit::TestCase. It will even work [...]

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autotest-ing your Rails Plugin

By aizatto | November 19, 2007

autotest is a great tool to easily test your Rails application. autotest runs in the background and continuously test your app, and notify you of the results, thus leaving you to build your app with the confidence of knowing that it isn’t going to break without your knowledge, and as soon as possible. It [...]

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