I just posted a pull request to improve the RSpec TextMate Bundle's output in cases where the error occurs *outside* a spec -- e.g. a syntax error. It's currently quite ugly and my patch formats it as HTML and adds some contextual info.
patch: https://github.com/rspec/rspec-tmbundle/pull/30 screenshots: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1qSWcCl2M931MCfYW2YGdXSJipnG6ZiLhMu74ubKvMl4 The reason I'm posting is not to plead for +1 love for the patch (though that would be nice) but to ask about a feature I stuck in there as well, that's potentially controversial. It grabs standard error output and shows it (formatted as a PRE block) at the bottom of the results in the output window. I say it's potentially controversial because some people might want to use $stderr.puts as debug info in the middle of a run; those lines currently show up just above the relevant test name, but in this PRE patch, that proximity is lost. So let me please take a quick poll. Who wants A. The current behavior, where $stderr.puts (and warn, and regular puts/p) output shows up interlaced in the textmate output window, unformatted and unescaped B. The behavior in my 2nd patch, where $stderr is captured and then displayed at the end of the run, below the nice colored HTML test results, in a PRE block so it's easier to read C. New unimplemented behavior, where $stderr is replaced with a smart object that wraps lines in PRE, but still interlaces them with the more-pretty test results as they happen Non-TextMate users need not reply :-) - A -- Alex Chaffee - a...@stinky.com - http://alexch.github.com Stalk me: http://friendfeed.com/alexch | http://twitter.com/alexch | http://alexch.tumblr.com _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
