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Posted on Jul 04, 2010
Prettier MiniTest for Ruby 1.9
The default test library in Ruby 1.9 is now MiniTest, and Test::Unit is now a wrapper around MiniTest. Here’s the snippet from the Ruby 1.9 release notes:
* minitest
o Our new testing library which is faster, cleaner and easier
to read than the old test/unit.
o You can introduce the old test/unit as testunit gem through
RubyGems if you want.
The problem with both the old and new ruby test libraries is that long running tests withheld error/failure information until the whole suite finished. Turn helped solved this, but it doesn’t have a runner for minitest – the turn codebase has a TODO note to implement a minitest runner though.
I decided to look at minitest and implement a hackish turn-like printer. It’s ugly, but I like the results. This gist is what I came up with. If someone knows how turn’s internal works, I would love to patch something into turn for minitest. I’ve only glanced at turn’s codebase, so I don’t know too much about it.
Anyways, copy the gist your test_helper.rb and you’re all set! It requires you have the ansi gem installed. This is what it looks like in my terminal:
Grab the code here: http://gist.github.com/356945
Posted on Apr 05, 2010
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