Hello, I've been trying to google the definitive way to combine autotest, rspec, and spec-server, but to no avail. It seems like there are lots of suggestions from old versions. Furthermore, some commands such as rake:autotest don't seem to be around anymore.
So, is it required to install ZenTest as a gem? I have version 3.9.1. I believe this gets me the autotest command that I can issue on the command line. Must I install rspec as a gem? At first, I tried to not install it as a gem and followed the instructions from http://rspec.info/ documentation/rails/install.html. I installed rspec as a plugin to my Rails project and used just rake spec, but found that unless I install rspec as a gem, there is no spec command for the command line. That might make it easier to run my specs with options. So, I installed rspec 1.1.3 as a gem. That provided me with the spec command that I can issue on the command line. What is the recommended way to start the spec-server? ./script/ spec_server or rake:spec:server:start? I've tried both and cannot discern the differences. Finally, what is the recommended way to run my specs? spec -O spec/ spec.opts spec/XXX or rake spec:XXX ? I've edited spec.opts to include --drb on the first line. The rake method didn't seem to use the spec-server, despite this suggestion. So, I've tried the spec command above. It still didn't seem to use spec-server. However, when I use spec -X -O spec/spec.opts, it does seem to use the spec_server. I'm glad I'm able to finally use the spec_server, but it's a real drag switching back to my command line to issue this command after every save. That's exactly why I want to run autotest. What is the recommended way to run autotest? autotest or rake spec:autotest (I've seen this on google, but the command itself no longer appears when I run rake -T spec. Is there something wrong with my setup? Am I supposed to have a rake task for this or is it deprecated). Without an available rake task, I am forced to try the autotest command. However, I don't think that the autotest command accepts any options that tell it to use the spec_server. I tried autotest -X, and of course, my spec.opts file does already say --drb in the first line. As you can see, I am really confused because there are at least 2 ways to do everything, and I haven't been able to try every combination. I've also noticed that autotest no longer runs the entire test suite after a red-green cycle. I actually liked this behavior, but all I could find was David Chelimsky's blog on how to de-activate the behavior. Why has it changed? Can it be restored? If it helps, I'm running on Mac OS X 10.4.11, ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [powerpc-darwin8.11.0] Thanks for your help! -Anthony _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
