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TakaGoto
TakaGoto

Reputation: 362

running Guard rspec for ruby kata

So i'm trying to use guard rspec just for ruby, and not for rails. The test runs fine but the only problem is that it only looks for the spec.rb file, and doesn't look for the actual file. So I have a failed arabic_to_roman.rb and arabic_to_roman_spec.rb. the Guardfile is installed under the directory roman_numerals_kata. It only looks for the _spec.rb file and not the arabic_to_roman.rb. here is what the Guardfile looks like

  1 # A sample Guardfile
  2 # More info at https://github.com/guard/guard#readme
  3 
  4 guard 'rspec' do
  5   watch(%r{^spec/.+_spec\.rb$})
  6   watch(%r{^lib/(.+)\.rb$})     { |m| "spec/lib/#{m[1]}_spec.rb" }
  7   watch('spec/spec_helper.rb')  { "spec" }
  8 
  9   # Rails example
 10   watch(%r{^app/(.+)\.rb$})                           { |m| "spec/#{m[1]}_spec.rb" }
 11   watch(%r{^app/(.*)(\.erb|\.haml)$})                 { |m| "spec/#{m[1]}#     {m[2]}_spec.rb" }
 12   watch(%r{^app/controllers/(.+)_(controller)\.rb$})  { |m| ["spec/routing/#  {m[1]}_routing_spec.rb", "spec/#{m[2]}s/#{m[1]}_#{m[2]}_spec.rb", "spec/acceptance/#{m[1]}_spec.rb"] }
 13   watch(%r{^spec/support/(.+)\.rb$})                  { "spec" }
 14   watch('config/routes.rb')                           { "spec/routing" }
 15   watch('app/controllers/application_controller.rb')  { "spec/controllers" }
 16 
 17   # Capybara features specs
 18   watch(%r{^app/views/(.+)/.*\.(erb|haml)$})          { |m| "spec/features/#{m[1]}_spec.rb" }
 19 
 20   # Turnip features and steps
 21   watch(%r{^spec/acceptance/(.+)\.feature$})
 22   watch(%r{^spec/acceptance/steps/(.+)_steps\.rb$})   { |m| Dir[File.join("**/#{m[1]}.feature")][0] || 'spec/acceptance' }
23 end
24

Upvotes: 0

Views: 125

Answers (1)

ZPH
ZPH

Reputation: 161

What is the structure of your directory?

Based on this config, Guard looks for any ruby files in the lib directory and will execute the matching test that is nested inside spec/lib/. Those details are in this line of the guardfile: watch(%r{^lib/(.+)\.rb$}) { |m| "spec/lib/#{m[1]}_spec.rb" }.

Using this Guardfile (which matches my standard project layout) you should have the following folder layout:

BASE_DIR
├── Guardfile
├── lib
│   ├── README
│   └── arabic_to_roman.rb
├── spec
│   ├── lib
│   │   └── arabic_to_roman_spec.rb
│   └── spec_helper.rb

The alternative, if not wishing to conform to standard folder layout is to modify the Guardfile like this

guard 'rspec' do
  watch(%r{^spec/.+_spec\.rb$})
  watch(%r{^(.+)\.rb$})     { |m| "spec/#{m[1]}_spec.rb" }
  watch('spec/spec_helper.rb')  { "spec" }
end

Notice that the second watch command is looking for it in the basedir rather than in lib/*

Hope this helps :)

Upvotes: 2

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