Tools Setup

Automating and Speeding up Tests: Guard & Spork

See M. Hartl’s Tutorial - these are just bare bone notes for mac

Gemfile / group test gem ‘rb-fsevent’, :require => false gem ‘growl’ gem ‘guard-spork’ gem ‘guard-rspec’ gem ‘spork’

 bundle exec guard init rspec Edit Guardfile

start guard guard

Spork

 gem 'guard-spork', '1.2.0'
 gem 'spork', '0.9.2'


 bundle exec spork --bootstrap

 bundle exec spork

Eliminiating bundle exec

Michael Hartl describes how to eliminiate bundle exec

IRB

Wirble adds syntax highlighting and saved history to irb. The history is saved in “~/.irb_history”, set env IRB_HISTORY_FILE to specify another file.

to setup, put this in ~/.irbrc begin # load wirble require ‘rubygems’ require ‘wirble’

# start wirble (with color) Wirble.init Wirble.colorize rescue LoadError => err warn “Couldn’t load Wirble: #{err}” end

Readme

Pry is an irb/console replacement with source code and documentation browsing support.