Monday, September 24, 2007
Getting Autotest to work on Windows for Ruby projects
This seems blogworthy, as I have spent much longer than I wanted to find a solution.
I was trying to run autotest - of the zentest package - on a ruby project on windows, but autotest didn't seem to be able to pick up changes to my files.
I will not pretend to have understood exactly what made it work for me, but these are things that I did and that might have helped.
Setting the HOME variable:
set HOME="c:\Documents and Settings\my_username_here"
moving my project files into a lib directory and my test files into a test directory:
myproject
myproject/lib
myproject/test
going to the project directory and running autotest:
cd myproject
autotest -v
This should work. Every time I save a test file or a lib file, autotest picks up the changes and runs the tests.
thanks to Philippe Hanrigou for pointing out the right heuristics!
I was trying to run autotest - of the zentest package - on a ruby project on windows, but autotest didn't seem to be able to pick up changes to my files.
I will not pretend to have understood exactly what made it work for me, but these are things that I did and that might have helped.
Setting the HOME variable:
set HOME="c:\Documents and Settings\my_username_here"
moving my project files into a lib directory and my test files into a test directory:
myproject
myproject/lib
myproject/test
going to the project directory and running autotest:
cd myproject
autotest -v
This should work. Every time I save a test file or a lib file, autotest picks up the changes and runs the tests.
thanks to Philippe Hanrigou for pointing out the right heuristics!
