Now we’ll need official chain support, so plugins can happily use this feature together. Something like adding “super”, for overridden methods.

Thanks for posting these, I’ll definitely be applying some of the shell stuff at work. If you’re interested in automating some subversion stuff, check out my svn_tools plugin – it handles all the bootstrapping of a new rails project, among other stuff.

That’s pretty sweet. For what it’s worth, do check out my modified version of the above that gives you stuff like rake test:blog:create and rake test:blogs_controller.

Thanx for the shortcuts, they were pretty easy and time saving!! I m surely gonna apply some of this stuff at work. That’s sweet of you! :-)

This may sound like a newby question, but where / how do i use these shortcuts?

Thanks!

Thanks for this, just what I wanted.

I improved it a bit to resolve clashes between unit test names and functional test names (I have both expense_claim_test.rb and expense_claim_controller_test.rb – just what scaffold gave).

Here’s my quick and ugly version: ## # Run a single test in Rails. # # rake blogs_list # => Runs test_list for BlogsController (functional test; 'rake f_blogs_list' to force it if unit test found) # # rake blog_create # => Runs test_create for BlogTest (unit test; ('rake u_blog_create' to force it if functional test found)) rule "" do |t| if /(f_|u_|)(.*)_([^.]+)$/.match(t.name) flag = $1 force_functional = (flag == "f_") force_unit = (flag == "u_") file_name = $2 test_name = $3 if (force_unit || File.exist?("test/unit/#{file_name}_test.rb")) file_path = "unit/#{file_name}_test.rb" end if (force_functional || File.exist?("test/functional/#{file_name}_controller_test.rb")) file_path = "functional/#{file_name}_controller_test.rb" end if (!File.exist?("test/#{file_path}")) raise "No file found for #{file_path}" end sh "ruby -Ilib:test test/#{file_path} -n /^test_#{test_name}/" end end

Another link for newbies like me: Rake User Guide, http://docs.rubyrake.org/export/html/2

Found info on rules there. Server is currently down but google cache helps.

Thanks for this, just what I wanted.

I improved it a bit to resolve clashes between unit test names and functional test names (I have both expense_claim_test.rb and expense_claim_controller_test.rb – just what scaffold gave). Here’s my quick and ugly version:

##
# Run a single test in Rails.
#
#   rake blogs_list (or f_blogs_list)
#   => Runs test_list for BlogsController (functional test; use f_blogs_list to force it if unit test found)
#
#   rake blog_create (or u_blog_create)
#   => Runs test_create for BlogTest (unit test; use u_blog_create to force it if functional test found))

rule "" do |t|
  if /(f_|u_|)(.*)_([^.]+)$/.match(t.name)
    flag = $1
    force_functional = (flag == "f_")
    force_unit = (flag == "u_")
    file_name = $2
    test_name = $3
    if (force_unit || File.exist?("test/unit/#{file_name}_test.rb"))
      file_path = "unit/#{file_name}_test.rb" 
    end

    if (force_functional || File.exist?("test/functional/#{file_name}_controller_test.rb"))
      file_path = "functional/#{file_name}_controller_test.rb" 
    end

    if (!File.exist?("test/#{file_path}"))
      raise "No file found for #{file_path}" 
    end

    sh "ruby -Ilib:test test/#{file_path} -n /^test_#{test_name}/" 
  end
end

http://pragmatig.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/testing-a-single-example-spec-testcase-test/

- same syntax, controllers -> test:blog_C (if both are named the same) - searches for matching files in unit/functional/integration - works with rspec too rake spec:blog:create

addition: rake spec:x -> first test matching x*_spec.rb, search in order model/controller/view/helper/any folder