• Stars
    star
    213
  • Rank 185,410 (Top 4 %)
  • Language
    Ruby
  • License
    MIT License
  • Created over 14 years ago
  • Updated almost 4 years ago

Reviews

There are no reviews yet. Be the first to send feedback to the community and the maintainers!

Repository Details

distributed rspec & cucumber via bonjour

Specjour

Notes

Listener daemonized or foregrounded forks a loader loader should load, setsid, then exit all workers then have the same sid and gid with no parent pid worker pgid = 100 sid = 100 webkit_server worker pgid = 100 sid = 100 webkit_server

performance.txt printing informational messages single specjour command starts daemon interrupts handle no careful_test database bonjour announce project names printer#project_name aliases

Instructions

  1. Start a listener on every machine in the network. # specjour listen
  2. Start a dispatcher. # specjour
  3. Say farewell to your long coffee breaks.

Installation

gem install specjour

Rails

Each worker needs an isolated database. Modify the test database name in your config/database.yml to include the following environment variable (Influenced by parallel_tests):

test:
  database: project_name_test<%=ENV['TEST_ENV_NUMBER']%>

Give it a try

source .dev bin/specjour listen -f -l bin/specjour spec/

Run specjour to start a dispatcher, manager, and multiple workers in the same terminal window.

$ cd myproject
$ specjour

Start a manager

If you wish to share your computing power with the rest of the computers in your network, run specjour listen to start a long running process. The next time you, or any of your co-workers run specjour, they'll find your machine.

$ specjour listen

Distribute the tests

Dispatch the tests among the managers in the network. Specjour checks the 'spec' and 'features' directories for tests to send to the listening managers.

$ specjour

Supplementary

Distribute a subset of tests

The first parameter of the specjour command is a test directory. It defalts to the current directory and searches for 'spec' and 'features' paths therein.

$ specjour spec # all rspec tests
$ specjour spec/models # only model tests
$ specjour features # all features

Custom Hooks

Specjour allows you to hook in to the test process on a per-machine and per-worker level through the before_fork and after_fork configuration blocks. If the default hooks don't work for your project, they can be overridden.

# .specjour/hooks.rb

# Modify the way you use bundler
Specjour::Configuration.before_fork = lambda do
  system('bundle install --without production')
end

# Modify your database setup
Specjour::Configuration.after_fork = lambda do
  # custom database setup here
end

A preparation hook is run when specjour prepare is invoked. This hook allows you to run arbitrary code on all of the listening workers. By default, it recreates the database on all workers.

# .specjour/hooks.rb

# Modify preparation
Specjour::Configuration.prepare = lambda do
  # custom preparation code
end

Customize what gets rsync'd

The standard rsync configuration file may be too broad for your project. If you find you're rsyncing gigs of extraneous data from your public directory, add an exclusion to your project's rsyncd.conf file.

$ vi workbeast/.specjour/rsyncd.conf

Listen for multiple projects

By default, a manager will listen to the project in the current directory. If you want to run tests for multiple projects, use the --projects flag.

$ specjour listen --projects bizconf workbeast # run tests for the bizconf and workbeast projects

Give your project an alias

By default, the dispatcher looks for managers matching the project's directory name. If you have multiple teams working on different branches of the same project you may want to isolate each specjour cluster. Give your project an alias and only listen for that alias.

~/bizconf $ specjour listen --projects bizconf_08
~/bizconf $ specjour --alias bizconf_08

~/bizconf $ specjour listen --projects bizconf_09
~/bizconf $ specjour --alias bizconf_09

Working with git

Commit the .specjour directory but ignore the performance file. The performance file constantly changes, there's no need to commit it. Specjour uses it in an attempt to optimize the run order; ensuring each machine gets at least one long-running test.

$ cat .gitignore
/.specjour/performance

Compatibility

  • RSpec 2
  • Cucumber 0.9+
  • Rails 3

Support

Hacking on Specjour

If you want to hack on specjour, here is how to test your changes:

source .dev
rake # run the test suite sanely
specjour # run the test suite with specjour

Then if all is good, go to another app and test your changes on your test suite:

gem build specjour.gemspec
cd /path/to/your/project
gem install -l /path/to/specjour/latest.gem
specjour

Thanks

  • shayarnett - Cucumber support, pairing and other various patches
  • voxdolo - Endless support, alpha testing, various patches
  • l4rk and leshill - Removed Jeweler, added support for RSpec 2 and Cucumber 0.9+
  • testjour - Ripped off your name
  • parallel_tests - Inspiration

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

  • Fork the project.
  • $ source .dev to ensure you're using the local specjour binary, not the rubygems version
  • Make your feature addition or bug fix.
  • Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
  • Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
  • Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2010 Sandro Turriate. See MIT_LICENSE for details.

More Repositories

1

ephemeral_response

Automatic recording, replaying, and expiry of web responses.
Ruby
96
star
2

ruby-fsevent

Abandoned, use Guard. A native extension exposing the OS X FSEvents API. RubyCocoa not required.
Ruby
45
star
3

bench_press

Abandoned. simple ruby benchmarking
Ruby
43
star
4

capybara-chrome

Chrome driver for Capybara using Chrome's remote debugging protocol
Ruby
28
star
5

runkeeper

API client for Runkeeper (http://runkeeper.com)
Ruby
23
star
6

capify_slicehost

Capistrano script to setup an Ubuntu slice from slicehost and install a rails stack
10
star
7

githubber

github bookmarklet which lets you test markdown for a readme page
JavaScript
10
star
8

yaba

Yet Another Base App - a rails baseapp including email and openid authentication, rspec, haml, and aasm
Ruby
10
star
9

rlastfm

ruby wrapper/scraper for last.fm
Ruby
8
star
10

on-webby

turriate.com on webby
Ruby
7
star
11

assembly_line

Organize your test suite's object graphs in semantic blocks
Ruby
7
star
12

metamuse

Search for music metadata
Ruby
7
star
13

annotrack

Summarize activity on pivotal tracker for a given user on a specific day.
Ruby
6
star
14

homeward

Rakefile and generators to get my new apps up and running
Ruby
6
star
15

sandro.github.com

Internet.stubs(sandro)
6
star
16

mseeqr

Ruby wrapper for seeqpod's mobile service.
Ruby
6
star
17

srg

Sandro's rails generator
Ruby
6
star
18

tagooru

Ruby wrapper for the tagoo search engine
Ruby
6
star
19

railify

Edge Rails generator with configured git repo and rspec, haml and resource_controller gems.
6
star
20

culerity_fakeweb

Example rails app using fakeweb to return known responses in culerity
Ruby
6
star
21

html2textile

(alpha) Scripts and Library for converting HTML to Textile
5
star
22

outlandmall-razor

Community script for the outland mall
HTML
4
star
23

reaper

Harvest library for destroying invoices, time entries, expenses, projects, clients, and employees.
2
star
24

imigrate

Interface-driven migrations in Go. A simple tool to run database migrations for sql drivers that don't conform to database/sql.
Go
2
star
25

hash_proxy

SPIKE: A distributed, persistent, key/value store providing language-agnostic storage-engines.
Ruby
2
star
26

pass.rb

RSpec environment preloader for Rails. Similar to spork, and spin.
Ruby
1
star
27

phaser-lessons

programming lessons via phaser https://sandro.github.io/phaser-lessons/
JavaScript
1
star
28

websocket_browse

Websocket experiment which controls an iframe in another browser
1
star
29

angular-movies

Angular spike (not interesting)
JavaScript
1
star
30

authenticated_gist

Post gists under your github account
Ruby
1
star
31

go_callback

CGo callback example.
C
1
star
32

srunr

some spec runner thing
Ruby
1
star
33

specjour_rails_app

An example rails app for testing specjour
Ruby
1
star