I've started a new adventure building a fairly large distributed database driven website using Ruby on Rails and eventually Adobe Flex for a pretty front end(this is *very* cool combination). I've got SlickEdit 11 as my IDE which now supports both Ruby and ActionScript for Flex - nice timing there.
Anyway, what inspired this post was attempting to use my RnD-style development with Ruby's Test::Unit, which implies using Rake. I strongly believe that it is a major productivity boost to be able to edit code, run it, and view the results all without touching the mouse or fiddling with windows. Us developers repeat this cycle many times a day, and the distraction plus the seconds or minutes taken to do this add up.
I've managed to get the basic CRUD web stuff going with Rails's wonderful scaffolding feature generated from an Access .mdb supplied by my boss. 32 tables generated some 503 files !
Now I want to start writing some application logic, and want to set up a little sandbox where I can work within a single file, writing tests, writing the application class, and executing by pressing a key combination in SlickEdit.
Scaffolding in Rails has generated 256 tests already, which can be executed with "rake test_unit" for example, but how do you run a single test ?
This post http://nubyonrails.com/articles/2006/07/28/foscon-and-living-dangerously-with-rake got me started, and running "rake test_unit" produces
c:/ruby/bin/ruby -Ilib;test "c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb"
followed by all the test files to run.
So, I just needed to run this command line appended with the current buffer name to execute a test that I'm currently editing. If it isn't a test (doesn't end with _test before the extension) then I execute it as a normal ruby file. I also execute .bat buffers like this, and potentially other extensions.
I ended up with the following code in my vusrmacs.e.
One thing yet to tidy up, is not not hardcode the location of rake_test_loader.rb. I haven't looked into this as yet.
Sorry for the rushed post. I hope its of use to someone anyways.
Gary
boolean EndsWith(_str haystack, _str needle) {
//strings are 1-based
int lp = lastpos(needle,haystack);
return lp == (length(haystack) - length(needle) + 1);
}
_command ExecBuffer()
{
_str pathBuffer = p_buf_name;
//_str extBuffer = get_extension(p_buf_name);
if (p_extension=="rb" || p_extension=="ruby" || p_extension=="rbw") {
_str simpleName=strip_filename(pathBuffer,'PE');
if (EndsWith(simpleName,"_test")) {
start_process()
clear_pbuffer()
concur_command("ruby -Ilib;test \"c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb\" \"":+pathBuffer:+"\"")
} else {
start_process()
clear_pbuffer()
concur_command("ruby -S -w ":+pathBuffer)
}
//} else if (p_extension=="html" || p_extension== "htm") {
} else if (p_extension=="bat") {
start_process()
clear_pbuffer()
concur_command(p_buf_name);
} else {
}
}
