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m.rb

m stands for metal, which is a better test/unit test runner that can run tests by line number.

m ci

Rush is a heavy metal band. Look it up on Wikipedia.

Rush at the Bristol Colston Hall May 1979

Install

Install via:

gem install m

If you’re using Bundler, you’ll need to include it in your Gemfile. Toss it into the test group:

group :test do
  gem 'm', '~> 1.3.1'
end

Developing a RubyGem? Add m as a development dependency.

Gem::Specification.new do |gem|
  # ...
  gem.add_development_dependency "m", "~> 1.3.1"
end

m works on Ruby 1.9+ only.

Usage

Basically, I was sick of using the -n flag to grab one test to run. Instead, I prefer how RSpec’s test runner allows tests to be run by line number.

Given this file:

$ cat -n test/example_test.rb
 1  require 'test/unit'
 2
 3  class ExampleTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
 4    def test_apple
 5      assert_equal 1, 1
 6    end
 7
 8    def test_banana
 9      assert_equal 1, 1
10    end
11  end

You can run a test by line number, using format m TEST_FILE:LINE_NUMBER_OF_TEST:

$ m test/example_test.rb:4
Run options: -n /test_apple/

# Running tests:

.

Finished tests in 0.000525s, 1904.7619 tests/s, 1904.7619 assertions/s.

1 tests, 1 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors, 0 skips

Hit the wrong line number? No problem, m helps you out:

$ m test/example_test.rb:2
No tests found on line 2. Valid tests to run:

 test_apple: m test/examples/test_unit_example_test.rb:4
test_banana: m test/examples/test_unit_example_test.rb:8

Want to run the whole test? Just leave off the line number.

$ m test/example_test.rb
Run options:

# Running tests:

..

Finished tests in 0.001293s, 1546.7904 tests/s, 3093.5808 assertions/s.

1 tests, 2 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors, 0 skips

Supports

m works with a few Ruby test frameworks:

  • Test::Unit
  • ActiveSupport::TestCase
  • MiniTest::Unit::TestCase

License

This gem is MIT licensed, please see LICENSE for more information.

 

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
M, your metal test runner



Maybe this gem should have a longer name? Metal?

      		
      
        
module M
  VERSION = "1.3.1" unless defined?(VERSION)

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
Accept arguments coming from bin/m and run tests, then bail out immediately.

      		
      
        
  def self.run(argv)
    exit Runner.new(argv).run
  end

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
Runner is in charge of running your tests.



Instead of slamming all of this junk in an M class, it’s here instead.

      		
      
        
  class Runner
    def initialize(argv)
      @argv = argv
    end

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
There’s two steps to running our tests:
1. Parsing the given input for the tests we need to find (or groups of tests)
2. Run those tests we found that match what you wanted

      		
      
        
    def run
      parse
      execute
    end

    private

    def parse

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
With no arguments,

      		
      
        
      if @argv.empty?

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
Just shell out to rake test.

      		
      
        
        exec "rake test"
      else
        parse_options! @argv

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
Parse out ARGV, it should be coming in in a format like test/test_file.rb:9

      		
      
        
        @file, line = @argv.first.split(':')
        @line ||= line.to_i

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
If this file is a directory, not a file, run the tests inside of this directory

      		
      
        
        if Dir.exist?(@file)

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
Make a new rake test task with a hopefully unique name, and run every test looking file in it

      		
      
        
          require "rake/testtask"
          Rake::TestTask.new(:m_custom) do |t|
            t.libs << 'test'
            t.pattern = "#{@file}/*test*.rb"
          end

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
Invoke the rake task and exit, hopefully it’ll work!

      		
      
        
          Rake::Task['m_custom'].invoke
          exit
        end
      end
    end

    def parse_options!(argv)
      require 'optparse'

      OptionParser.new do |opts|
        opts.banner  = 'Options:'
        opts.version = M::VERSION

        opts.on '-h', '--help', 'Display this help.' do
          puts "Usage: m [OPTIONS] [FILES]\n\n", opts
          exit
        end

        opts.on '--version', 'Display the version.' do
          puts "m #{M::VERSION}"
          exit
        end

        opts.on '-l', '--line LINE', Integer, 'Line number for file.' do |line|
          @line = line
        end

        opts.parse! argv
      end
    end

    def execute

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
Locate tests to run that may be inside of this line. There could be more than one!

      		
      
        
      tests_to_run = tests.within(@line)

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
If we found any tests,

      		
      
        
      if tests_to_run.size > 0

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
assemble the regexp to run these tests,

      		
      
        
        test_names = tests_to_run.map(&:name).join('|')

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
set up the args needed for the runner

      		
      
        
        test_arguments = ["-n", "/(#{test_names})/"]

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
directly run the tests from here and exit with the status of the tests passing or failing

      		
      
        
        if defined?(MiniTest)
          MiniTest::Unit.runner.run test_arguments
        elsif defined?(Test)
          Test::Unit::AutoRunner.run(false, nil, test_arguments)
        else
          not_supported
        end
      elsif tests.size > 0

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
Otherwise we found no tests on this line, so you need to pick one.

      		
      
        
        message = "No tests found on line #{@line}. Valid tests to run:\n\n"

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
For every test ordered by line number,
spit out the test name and line number where it starts,

      		
      
        
        tests.by_line_number do |test|
          message << "#{sprintf("%0#{tests.column_size}s", test.name)}: m #{@file}:#{test.start_line}\n"
        end

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
Spit out helpful message and bail

      		
      
        
        STDERR.puts message
        false
      end
    end

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
Finds all test suites in this test file, with test methods included.

      		
      
        
    def suites

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
Since we’re not using ruby -Itest -Ilib to run the tests, we need to add this directory to the LOAD_PATH

      		
      
        
      $:.unshift "./test", "./lib"

      begin

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
Fire up this Ruby file. Let’s hope it actually has tests.

      		
      
        
        load @file
      rescue LoadError => e

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
Fail with a happier error message instead of spitting out a backtrace from this gem

      		
      
        
        STDERR.puts "Failed loading test file:\n#{e.message}"
        return []
      end

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
Figure out what test framework we’re using

      		
      
        
      if defined?(MiniTest)
        suites = MiniTest::Unit::TestCase.test_suites
      elsif defined?(Test)
        suites = Test::Unit::TestCase.test_suites
      else
        suites = []
        not_supported
      end

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
Use some janky internal APIs to group test methods by test suite.

      		
      
        
      suites.inject({}) do |suites, suite_class|

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
End up with a hash of suite class name to an array of test methods, so we can later find them and ignore empty test suites

      		
      
        
        suites[suite_class] = suite_class.test_methods if suite_class.test_methods.size > 0
        suites
      end
    end

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
Shoves tests together in our custom container and collection classes.
Memoize it since it’s unnecessary to do this more than one for a given file.

      		
      
        
    def tests
      @tests ||= begin
        require "m/test_collection"
        require "m/test_method"

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
With each suite and array of tests,
and with each test method present in this test file,
shove a new test method into this collection.

      		
      
        
        suites.inject(TestCollection.new) do |collection, (suite_class, test_methods)|
          test_methods.each do |test_method|
            collection << TestMethod.create(suite_class, test_method)
          end
          collection
        end
      end
    end

      		
    

    

      
        

          
        

        
Fail loudly if this isn’t supported


      		
      
        
    def not_supported
      STDERR.puts "This test framework is not supported! Please open up an issue at https://github.com/qrush/m !"
      false
    end
  end
end