I’m trying to model my tests after the great work that the Thougtbot guys have done. They seem to use the test framework built into Rails Shoulda. Great.
I have been hearing a lot about Autotest – that its magical-ness should make things easier…. I expected that things would ‘just work’ if I installed it. My rake test:units already all pass. When I run autotest, nothing happens. I’ve barely found any information on how autotest works, and only brief mentions of a special file ‘.autotest’ that’s supposed to do something other than hold the requires for growl and redgreen.
I’m coming from a CruiseControl background here… but it seems like things should be way more apparent. Does anybody have experience running Rails’ native tests along with Shoulda and Autotest?
Update|Resolved apparently the discover.rb file in seed-fu was making autotest think it was testing for RSpec, not Test::Unit.
A plugin I’m using, seed-fu, had a discover.rb to ‘help’ autotest. In my case though it made autotest think I was running RSpec and everything else broke.