Run specific tests via Rake

Geoffrey Grosenbach recently discoved what’s effectively method_missing for rake tasks. I’ve taken his experimental proposed rake task, and changed (I’m reluctant to say “improved”) it slighty.

This modified version uses a different syntax (rake test:foo:bar instead rake foo_bar) and regex matching for test names.

Usage

$ rake test:blog
=> Runs the full BlogTest unit test if it exists. If not, looks for BlogControllerTest and runs that.

$ rake test:blog:create
=> Runs the tests matching /create/ in the BlogTest unit test or BlogController functional test as described above.

$ rake test:blog_controller
=> Runs all tests in the BlogControllerTest functional test

$ rake test:blog_controller:create
=> Runs the tests matching /create/ in the BlogControllerTest functional test	

Code

# Run specific tests or test files
#
# rake test:blog
# => Runs the full BlogTest unit test
#
# rake test:blog:create
# => Runs the tests matching /create/ in the BlogTest unit test
#
# rake test:blog_controller
# => Runs all tests in the BlogControllerTest functional test
#
# rake test:blog_controller
# => Runs the tests matching /create/ in the BlogControllerTest functional test	
rule "" do |t|
  # test:file:method
  if /test:(.*)(:([^.]+))?$/.match(t.name)
    arguments = t.name.split(":")[1..-1]
    file_name = arguments.first
    test_name = arguments[1..-1]

if File.exist?(“test/unit/#{file_name}_test.rb”) run_file_name = “unit/#{file_name}_test.rb” elsif File.exist?(“test/functional/#{file_name}_controller_test.rb”) run_file_name = “functional/#{file_name}_controller_test.rb” elsif File.exist?(“test/functional/#{file_name}_test.rb”) run_file_name = “functional/#{file_name}_test.rb” end sh “ruby -Ilib:test test/#{run_file_name} -n /#{test_name}/” end

end

Do whatever you want with the above code, it’s yours now.