Comments on: a better progress bar for rspec

By: Matt Scilipoti

Matt Scilipoti — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:58:37 +0000

Thanks! Very nice.
I’ve just started to use `rake -g` for this sort of customization. Instead of `rake spec:recent`, I now use `rake -g spec:recent`. Your spec.opts file can live in ~/.rake too (I had to specify the full path). Now, ALL my projects have a nice formatter (no svn/git/bzr fu required).

By: nick

nick — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:51:11 +0000

@Nick Zadrozny: Sweet. Thanks!

I’m gonna have to redo this BDD-style and see if I can’t get it pushed into the next version of Rspec. I can’t work without it anymore.

By: Nick Zadrozny

Nick Zadrozny — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:05:49 +0000

Nice take on rspec output formatting! You sparked my imagination.

The only feature that I really missed was some kind of dedicated spec profiler. So I added one here that always prints the top 3 (or 5, or whatever) slowest specs when they’re all finished running.

http://gist.github.com/71340

By: nofxx

nofxx — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:17:04 +0000

First try to gemify this;

http://github.com/nofxx/rspec_spinner

By: nofxx

nofxx — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:44:18 +0000

Well, its ugly but it`s alive:

http://github.com/nofxx/rtui/tree/master

I gave this “universal” name cuz I pretend to add some more helpers I got around..
For now, its progress bar, but a lil easy to customize, and the spinner formatter.
And |=====| equals! hehe…

It changes the call to Progress.new, than on :components => you choose :bar, :spinner, both….. defaults to bar.

Updated the gist with a spinned one:
http://gist.github.com/34500

By: nofxx

nofxx — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:53:11 +0000

Hehe.yea, sorry:

ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i686-darwin9] (macports)
rspec 1.1.11.1 (build from git)

Oh, one more thing… I had the source open here so I`ve dropped your code there, so I`m running from spec.opts

Last thing… I`ll fork progressbar just to get |===| instead of |oooo| heheh, gonna try to implement a spinner for it too. =D

By: nick

nick — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:53:13 +0000

@nofxx: Re “missing something”: yeah, it’s missing specs or testing of any sort.

I don’t remember why I used “__full_description” rather than “full_description“. It hasn’t crashed for me (in its current form) yet, so perhaps this has something to do with which version of rspec it is running against?

By: nofxx

nofxx — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:45:21 +0000

Btw, I had to change line 58 to this: “immediately_dump_pending(example.full_description, “.

It crashes on pendings otherwise.. missing something? I`ve gisted it :

http://gist.github.com/34500

By: nofxx

nofxx — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:32:09 +0000

Wow! Sweet, great! Perfect.

And jez, what a coincidence, this morning I asked David on IRC some stuff cuz I had rspec source opened, in order to finally make the formatter of my dreams…

And you did it! And you did it better!! I was thinking about a spinner like sequence of this => \|/- on the side, but the progress bar is way better. And just show pendings and failures… AND SLOW ONES!

Great.. ty, gonna play with this here a lot! =D

By: Zach Dennis

Zach Dennis — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:54:51 +0000

Thanks for uploading the pic and screencast. Looks awesome… I can’t wait for it to be in Cucumber and RSpec.

By: nick

nick — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:23:07 +0000

@aslak: “steal” it for whatever nefarious purposes you want. I forgot to stick a license onto the file… fixed that now (MIT license).

By: Aslak Hellesøy

Aslak Hellesøy — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:11:21 +0000

Very nice. Mind if we steal it for Cucumber?

By: Matt Wynne

Matt Wynne — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:39:11 +0000

Absolute class. Well done indeed. I hope this becomes the default formatter for RSpec.

By: Rob Carlson

Rob Carlson — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:36:00 +0000

You’re my hero.

By: bryanl

bryanl — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:27:01 +0000

Put it up on github. I’ll make a clearer video.