How they Discovered Something Worth Knowing » Rspec http://www.silverchairsolutions.com/blog reflections on life, technology and brownies Wed, 12 May 2010 14:39:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 OSX Leopard, RSpec Autotest Growl/growlnotify Workaround http://www.silverchairsolutions.com/blog/2007/10/osx-leopard-rspec-autotest-growlgrowlnotify-workaround-2/ http://www.silverchairsolutions.com/blog/2007/10/osx-leopard-rspec-autotest-growlgrowlnotify-workaround-2/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:06:21 +0000 mhagedorn http://www.silverchairsolutions.com/blog/?p=19 Upon loading up the new release of OSX 10.5 (Leopard), I was very frustrated to find that Growl notifications no longer work when using
Autotest. Apparently growlnotify, the command line app which makes the magic happen, isn’t compatible. Read on to see how I got this work

It turns out that there is another way to get notifications into Growl other than the the (broken) growlnotify. That technique is to use Applescript.
Applescript allows you to do all sorts of neat things to applications in OSX but it is an arcane and hard to understand beast (at least in my
opinion – feel free to flame me :) ). Based on a sample from the Growl website I was able to cobble together a working solution which
restores all the growlnotify goodness we have come to expect from Autotest. The first thing is to write the Applescript which talks to Growl.

Here is what I came up with (as modified from the Growl website)

— growlNotify.applescript
–
— Created by Mike Hagedorn on 2007-10-31.
— Copyright (c) 2007 Silverchair Solutions. All rights reserved. http://www.silverchairsolutions.com
— based on script from the growl website
— works around the fact that growlnotify doesnt work on leopard

— pass in like osascript growlNotify.applescript <message> <image><br /> on run argv<br /> set rspec<em>title to item 1 of argv<br /> set rspec</em>message to item 2 of argv<br /> set rspec<em>image to item 3 of argv</p> <p> tell application “GrowlHelperApp”<br /> — Make a list of all the notification types<br /> — that this script will ever send:<br /> set the allNotificationsList to ¬<br /> {“RSpec Notification” }</p> <p> — Make a list of the notifications<br /> — that will be enabled by default.<br /> — Those not enabled by default can be enabled later<br /> — in the ‘Applications’ tab of the growl prefpane.<br /> set the enabledNotificationsList to ¬<br /> {“RSpec Notification”}</p> <p> — Register our script with growl.<br /> — You can optionally (as here) set a default icon<br /> — for this script’s notifications.<br /> register as application “Growl-RSpec AppleScript Notifications” ¬<br /> all notifications allNotificationsList ¬<br /> default notifications enabledNotificationsList ¬<br /> icon of application “Script Editor”</p> <p> — Send a Notification…<br /> notify with name “RSpec Notification” ¬<br /> title rspec</em>title ¬<br /> description rspec<em>message ¬<br /> application name “Growl-RSpec AppleScript Notifications” ¬<br /> image from location rspec</em>image</p> <p> end tell</p> <p> end run</p> <p>Put this file somewhere where you can find it (I used ~/Library/Scripts/growlNotify.applescript) then modify the .autotest file you have in your home directory<br /> to not call growlnotify, but the new method you just crafted (i.e. the applescript). Here is what mine looks like</p> <p> #<br /> # .autotest<br /> # Autotest Growl Notifications for Rspec and Test::Unit<br /> #<br /> # Created by Rein Henrichs on 2007-09-12.<br /> # Modified by Mike Hagedorn (www.silverchairsolutions.com) to use osascript to work around Leopard issues<br /> #<br /> # Copyright 2007 Rein Henrichs.<br /> # http://pastie.caboo.se/96573/download<br /> # </p> <p> require ‘logger’<br /> logfile = File.join(File.dirname(<strong>FILE</strong>), ‘.autotest.log’)<br /> $logger = Logger.new(logfile)</p> <p> module Autotest::Growl<br /> Autotest.add<em>hook :ran</em>command do |at|<br /> input = Input.new( at.results )<br /> Growler.display<em>notification( input )<br /> end<br /> end </p> <p> class String<br /> def remove</em>color<em>codes!<br /> self.gsub!(/\e[\d+m/,”)<br /> self.strip!<br /> end<br /> end</p> <p> class Growler<br /> class << self<br /> def display</em>notification( input )<br /> growler = RspecGrowler if input.from<em>rspec?<br /> growler = TestUnitGrowler if input.from</em>test<em>unit?<br /> growler.display</em>notification( input.result<em>line )<br /> rescue => e<br /> $logger.fatal e<br /> notify</em>system<em>error( “Unexpected Error”, “Please check your ~/.autotest.log and report anything strange to reinh@reinh.com” )<br /> end</p> <p> def notify(title, msg, img, pri=0, stick=”" )<br /> #system “growlnotify -n autotest –image #{img} -p #{pri} -m #{msg.inspect} #{title} #{stick}”<br /> system “osascript ~/Library/Scripts/growlNotify.applescript ‘#{title}’ ‘#{msg.inspect}’ ‘#{img}’”<br /> end</p> <p> def notify</em>system<em>error( title = “System Error”, err = “”)<br /> Growler.notify( title, err, ‘~/Library/autotest/rails</em>fail.png’)<br /> end<br /> end<br /> end</p> <p> class Input<br /> def initialize(input)<br /> @input = input<br /> end</p> <p> def empty?; @input.empty?; end</p> <p> # TODO: Make these work<br /> def failing?; end<br /> def passing?; end<br /> def error?; end</p> <p> def from<em>rspec?; !!rspec</em>result<em>line || empty?; end<br /> def from</em>test<em>unit?; !!test</em>unit<em>result</em>line; end<br /> def rspec<em>result</em>line; @input.grep( /\d+\sexample/ ).first; end<br /> def test<em>unit</em>result<em>line; @input.grep( /\d+\sassertion/ ).first; end<br /> def result</em>line<br /> @line ||= case<br /> when from<em>rspec? then rspec</em>result<em>line<br /> when from</em>test<em>unit? then test</em>unit<em>result</em>line<br /> else nil<br /> end<br /> @line.remove<em>color</em>codes! if @line<br /> end<br /> end</p> <p> class AutoGrowler < Growler<br /> class << self<br /> def notify<em>failure(input)<br /> notify( “Tests Failed”, input, ‘~/Library/autotest/rails</em>fail.png’, 2 )<br /> end<br /> def notify<em>success(input)<br /> notify( “Tests Passed”, input, ‘~/Library/autotest/rails</em>ok.png’, 0 )<br /> end<br /> end<br /> end</p> <p> class RspecGrowler < AutoGrowler<br /> class << self<br /> def notify<em>pending(input)<br /> notify( “Tests Pending”, input, ‘~/Library/autotest/pending.png’, 1 )<br /> end</p> <p> def notify</em>error<br /> notify( “Syntax Error”, “It looks like there was a syntax error. Check your autotest results.”, ‘~/Library/autotest/rails<em>fail.png’)<br /> end</p> <p> def display</em>notification(input)</p> <p> notify<em>error and return unless input<br /> # TODO: replace with some object oriented goodness. elsif FTL!<br /> examples, failures, pending = input.split(“, “)<br /> if failures.to</em>i > 0<br /> notify<em>failure input<br /> elsif pending.to</em>i > 0<br /> notify<em>pending input<br /> else<br /> notify</em>success input<br /> end<br /> end<br /> end<br /> end</p> <p> class TestUnitGrowler < AutoGrowler<br /> class << self<br /> def notify<em>error(input)<br /> notify( “Tests Errored”, input, ‘~/Library/autotest/rails</em>fail.png’, 2 )<br /> end<br /> def display<em>notification( input )</p> <p> # TODO: replace with some object oriented goodness. elsif FTL!<br /> tests, assertions, failures, errors = input.split(“, “)<br /> if errors.to</em>i > 0<br /> notify<em>error input<br /> elsif failures.to</em>i > 0<br /> notify<em>failure input<br /> else<br /> notify</em>success input<br /> end<br /> end<br /> end<br /> end</p> <p>Notice that the change here is a small one, only on line 44, reference the commented out growlnotify. This is working great for me. Hope this helps<br /> you!</p></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.silverchairsolutions.com/blog/2007/10/osx-leopard-rspec-autotest-growlgrowlnotify-workaround-2/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>