Convenient notifications from Autotest using test_notifier
Posted by Szymon Jeż Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:02:00 GMT
Recently I wrote (in Polish1) about problems with NetBeans integration with ZenTest Autotest (en) and posted my solution how to setup on screen notifications from Autotest (en). Then, a few days ago, I found2 test_notifier written by Nando (fnando) Vieira. This lib, avaible as a RubyGem:
gem install fnando-test_notifier --source=http://gems.github.com
is in my opinion an ideal solution for getting notifications from not only tests ran by Autotest but Test::Unit and RSpec test in general. Using it we can get convenient notifications about the results of our tests. Combined with Autotest we get a combo: automated, ran in the background, continuous testing + convenient notifications.
Please go and try it for yourself – it’s easy to setup and use as described in the REDME on the project Github page.
1 Use the (en) links to read the original articles translated to English by Google. The translation is kind of funny but you can get the idea about what I wrote.
2 Actually I found it, forked it, hacked a bit (added osd_cat, and knotify support, improved help hints when there is no notification software installed) and pushed it back to fnando so he could merge my changes. Thanks to Git and GitHub all of the contribution was a pleasure.
