Bill Walton wrote: > Hi Adam, > > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Adam <[email protected]> wrote: >> Rake comes with great support for unit testing with Test::Unit out of the >> box, you don't need an IDE to hook it all up for you. You can define a >> Rake::TestTask and just run 'rake test'. Rails does this automatically. >> RSpec comes with a similar Rake task that's as easy to define. >> If you really want your IDE to show you colors and stuff, I know RubyMine >> supports testing Rails applications and is cross-platform (written in Java). > > I'm a long-time user and fan of Test::Unit but TDD with it requires > quite a bit of typing. What I saw demonstrated with VisualStudio was > very impressive though. It supported Red-Green-Refactor at level I'd > never seen before. Write the test, it knows you don't have the method > you're testing and auto-generates it.
Perhaps you want Autotest? Again, no IDE necessary. (But I think method autogeneration in this case would be dangerous. Doesn't that mean you don't see the test fail?) I know that RSpec and Cucumber support an HTML output format where you can see the red and green nicely displayed in your browser. I hate Test::Unit, so I haven't used it enough to be sure if it does the same thing, but it might. > That sort of thing. It was a > very brief demo but what he showed was very impressive. I've never > been a big fan of IDEs for Rails development. I use the Ruby version > of NetBeans because it lets me use the same tool on Windows and Linux. Er...so does any decent editor. KomodoEdit (my current favorite) exists for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS; so does jEdit. > That and the debugger. Does ruby-debug-ide actually work with NetBeans? It didn't when I tried earlier this year. > But it's got nothing like what I saw last > weekend re: built-in TDD support. I'll check out RubyMine. > > Thanks! > Bill Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
