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Long time no serious news in my blog. I apologize for that and hopefully I have for time in the future to write about new and cool ruby and rails stuff. Until then here is some news on ZenTest, autotest and growl integration for ruby on rails projects.

I wrote about this setup and the things you have to do to get all this up and running in my older blogposts (here and here). ZenTest has changed in its newer versions (currently v4.1.4). To get all up and running do the following:

sudo gem uninstall ZenTest

Select all version if more than one is installed!

Then re-install the required gems. ZenTest doesn’t provide all the plugins any more. They have to be installed seperately as you can see above.

sudo gem install ZenTest autotest-rails autotest-growl

Maybe you’ll get the error “no such file to load — autotest/fsevent (LoadError)”. Then install the autotest-fsevent gem. I had this error on my macbook but I can’t tell you why … Just wanted to mention that.

To use growl just require it in your .autotest file in your home directory. My .autotest file:

require 'autotest/growl'

If you don’t install autotest-rails an error will occur:

macpro:mysedcard sb$ autotest
loading autotest/cucumber_rails
Autotest style autotest/cucumber_rails doesn't seem to exist. Aborting.