Autotest Growl Fail/Pass Smilies

Posted by jamie Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:03:00 GMT

John Nunemaker posted a handy tip on setting up autotest to work with Growl

I use this all the time now however I didn’t like the ugly smilies (call me shallow if you like). I used Wolfgang Bartelme’s Smily Devkit to make a couple of PNG’s slightly more pleasing to the eye.

Autotest Fail image Autotest Pending image Autotest Pass image

The zip file can be downloaded here: autotest_images.zip

Update 17-08-07: Added ‘pending’ image for RSpec as requested by Aslak Hellesøy

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  1. Avatar Aslak Hellesøy said 17 days later:

    Jamie, could you make a yellow one too? We’ve added a 3rd type of status to RSpec (pending). I’d like to bundle this up in an RSpec plugin and release it, but I’m not very good with Gimp and I don’t have Photoshop.

    Cheers, Aslak from the RSpec team

  2. Avatar Jamie Hill said 17 days later:

    Aslak: No problem, leave it with me. I’d like to see the RSpec version in action, I’m still using Test::Unit as I’m struggling to see the benefits of moving to RSpec. I’d like to hear your views on RSpec vs. Test::Unit.

  3. Avatar Aslak Hellesøy said 17 days later:

    Thanks Jamie!

    Since I’m one of the main developers of RSpec I’m obviously biased, but the main benefits you get are:

    • Self documentation. The specs are the documentation.
    • A different mental picture when you do TDD – your focus shifts and you end up with better code.
    • Built-in diff and colours
    • Built-in mocking
    • In Rails, allows you to test each M,V,C in isolation
    • A more natural/DSLish way to write assertions.

    Like most new things you’ll only realise the benefits if you try it out ;-)

    Aslak

  4. Avatar Jamie Hill said 18 days later:

    Aslak: I will give it a try especially if you are building in Growl notifications.

    I’ve added a ‘pending’ image. If you are going to be packaging it with rSpec would you mind putting an acknowledgement with a link to this site and/or www.soniciq.com. Thanks, Jamie.

  5. Avatar Rein Henrichs said about 1 month later:

    I’ve taken your smilies and written an autotest growl notifier for rspec that actually works and presents a somewhat useful notification. Hopefully Aslak and the Rspec crew will be able to incorporate it (or something like it) into an Rspec plugin in the near future. Thanks for the smilies, by the way. They’re sexy.

  6. Avatar Jamie Hill said about 1 month later:

    Rein: Looking promising.

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