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MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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retest
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Minitest, we've been doing it wrong?
Whatever you choose Retest (a gem I maintain) will acknowledge both naming conventions out of the box to increase the number of compatible Ruby projects. This is done in release 1.10.0. For example, you can now use Retest with Puma.
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For those using VSCode, is there a faster way to run "rspec" on the file shown in my active tab (a _spec.rb file)?
I created a gem: Retest which works on the terminal. A bit like Guard without any setup. The gem is smart enough to find the correct file to test after you save any.rb file.
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Is using the gem Guard still state of the art in TDD with Ruby?
I use retest. It works on every standard Ruby projects with no setup (understand no .Guardfile or Gemfile update). If you follow rspec, rails, rake or ruby standard file structure you get running in less than a minute. As a contractor I can checkout any repo and start TDD without caring about the repo setup. I use it even when Guard is already installed because the experience is consistent across all projects. It also has a —diff option that runs only spec files relevant from the diffs with another branch to run a final check before creating a pull request and triggering the whole test suite on CI.
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Any love for MiniTest?
But whatever the project I’m working on is, I always try using retest https://github.com/AlexB52/retest for awesome refactoring and TDD because it works with both Minitest and RSpec out of the box. Sorry for the shameless promotion.
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Can I run guard without adding it to a project?
Hi, I have created a gem called retest that helps you run specs after a file change without adding any configuration files to a repo. I created it for the specific reason you’re mentioning as I work in a consultancy. It is supposed to be dev centric and works with any ruby projects. I use it while working or refactoring. It might suits you, have a look
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Refactoring in Ruby
A great book by Sandi Metz is 99 bottles of OOP in Ruby where she explains heaps about refactoring. One of the best book I have read. I know you asked for article or videos but if you have time, it takes a day or two to read. I made a gem to help people refactor the same way she describes in the book. It will speed up your feedback loop when refactoring: retest
entr
- Entr – tool for watching files and running commands
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Meet entr, the standalone file watcher
entr ("Event Notify Test Runner"; GitHub), is a command-line tool written by Eric Radman that allows running arbitrary commands whenever files change.
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How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
I use something very similar on https://lunar.fyi and https://lowtechguys.com but I wouldn’t call this “simple” anymore.
They use Jinja templating, I prefer Slim (https://github.com/slim-template/slim#syntax-example) which has a more Pythonic syntax (there is plim [0] in Python for that)
I use Tailwind as well for terse styling and fast experimentation (allows me to write a darkMode-aware and responsive 100 line CSS in a single line with about 10 classes)
For interaction I can write CoffeeScript directly in the page [1] and have it compiled by plim.
I run a Caddy static server [2] and use Syncthing [3] to have every file save deployed instantly to my Hetzner server.
I use entr [4] and livereloadx [5] to rebuild the pages and do hot reload on file save. All the commands are managed in a simple Makefile [6]
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You can already see how the footnotes take up a large chunk of this comment, this is not my idea of simple. Sure, the end result is readable static HTML and I never have to fight obscure React errors, but it’s a high effort setup for starters.
Simple for me would be: write markdown files for pages, a simple CSS for general styling (should be optional), click to deploy on my domain. Images should automatically be resized to multiple sizes and optimized, videos re-encoded for smaller filesize etc.
I have mostly implemented that for myself (https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/How%20I%20write%20this%20blog...) but it feels fragile. I’d rather pay for a professional solution.
[0] https://plim.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
[1] https://github.com/FuzzyIdeas/lowtechguys/blob/main/src/rcmd...
[2] https://caddyserver.com/docs/command-line#caddy-file-server
[3] https://syncthing.net
[4] https://github.com/eradman/entr
[5] https://nitoyon.github.io/livereloadx/
[6] https://github.com/FuzzyIdeas/lowtechguys/blob/main/Makefile
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What are the not-so-obvious tools that you don't want to miss?
entr
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What are some alternatives?
minitest - minitest provides a complete suite of testing facilities supporting TDD, BDD, mocking, and benchmarking.
watchexec - Executes commands in response to file modifications
Puma - A Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism
nextjs-tailwind-ionic-capacitor-starter - A starting point for building an iOS, Android, and Progressive Web App with Tailwind CSS, React w/ Next.js, Ionic Framework, and Capacitor
rerun - Restarts an app when the filesystem changes. Uses growl and FSEventStream if on OS X.
modd - A flexible developer tool that runs processes and responds to filesystem changes
vim-test - Run your tests at the speed of thought
swc-node - Faster ts-node without typecheck
Rubocop - A Ruby static code analyzer and formatter, based on the community Ruby style guide. [Moved to: https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop]
air - ☁️ Live reload for Go apps
rubygems - Library packaging and distribution for Ruby.