Gnome and Autospec Notifications

admin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:38:25 +0000

I’m very keen on DBB with RSpec now and I wanted to share how I set up autospec notifications on Ubuntu (Jaunty 9.04) as long as the post I followed to do it is no longer available.

I’m using XCFE but should work perfectly on Gnome as well. This is an screenshot of what you’ll get in the end:

autospec notification XFCE/Gnome

First you need the ZenTest gem, you probably already do:

$ sudo gem install ZenTest
$ sudo gem install redgreen

Then install the libnotify-bin package:

$ sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin

Here is the trick. Create a file called ~/.autotest with this:

#!/bin/ruby
require 'redgreen'
require 'autotest/timestamp'
 
module Autotest::GnomeNotify
  def self.notify title, msg, img
    system "notify-send '#{title}' '#{msg}' -i #{img} -t 3000"
  end
 
  Autotest.add_hook :ran_command do |at|
    image_root = "~/.autotest_images"
    results = [at.results].flatten.join("\n")
    results.gsub!(/\\e\[\d+m/,'')
    output = results.slice(/(\d+)\sexamples?,\s(\d+)\sfailures?/)
    puts output.inspect
    if output
      if $~[2].to_i > 0
        notify "FAIL", "#{output}", "#{image_root}/fail.png"
      else
        notify "Pass", "#{output}", "#{image_root}/pass.png"
      end
    end
  end
 
end

As you can see I use the fail.png and pass.png images to show those cheesy smileys : ). You can download them here and copy them to ~/.autotest_images/.

autotest_images.zip

Make your tests go green and have a beer! : )

Update: Added redgreen gem and changed “require redgreen” as Rodrigo Flores and rakk suggested. Thanks!

Update: Changed mistakenly escaped >. Thanks to Martin y Hunter for the comments.

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