Rails - Aug 2007 - Override the default rails 'rake test' command to start dependencies

Hey guys,

I''d like to be able to override the default test task with something
that starts the dependencies required for testing our app. I''ve been
googling a bit and playing around with rake but I can''t get it to play
ball.

I put a file in lib/tasks/testing.rake with the following command.

Does anyone know a solution for doing something like this? I''m sure
this must be a common thing :)

Thanks,
Dave

desc ''Test all units and functionals''
task :test do
  puts "Starting ferret server..."
  system "RAILS_ENV=test script/ferret_start"
  exceptions = ["test:units", "test:functionals",
"test:integration"].collect do |task|
    begin
      Rake::Task[task].invoke
      nil
    rescue => e
      e
    end
  end.compact

  exceptions.each {|e| puts e;puts e.backtrace }
  raise "Test failures" unless exceptions.empty?
end

---
David Rice
http://www.davidjrice.co.uk


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On Aug 3, 2007, at 19:40 , David Rice wrote:
> I''d like to be able to override the default test task with
something
> that starts the dependencies required for testing our app.
I''ve found this useful in the past for redefining tasks (third item  
when I google for "rake redefine tasks")

http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2032

Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net



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Excellent, thanks Michael just what I was looking for!

I guess redefine was the magic word I didn''t try. :)

On Aug 4, 2:52 am, Michael Glaesemann
<g...-RYEyMNgfJnVLeUupdtUFmg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On Aug 3, 2007, at 19:40 , David Rice wrote:
>
> > I''d like to be able to override the default test task with
something
> > that starts the dependencies required for testing our app.
>
> I''ve found this useful in the past for redefining tasks (third
item
> when I google for "rake redefine tasks")
>
> http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2032
>
> Michael Glaesemann
> grzm seespotcode net

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