Fast Feedback Using Ruby
Fast Feedback Using Ruby
About the Book
The book describes various ways of getting feedback — and fast feedback — using Ruby tools, such as plain Ruby scripts and Rake tasks. It also shows a way to automatically execute these tools, using guard
.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
-
Preface
- Who is this book for?
- Assumptions
- Icons used in the book
- Setup & Environment
-
Using
Filefile
s
- 1 Introduction
-
2 First experiments
- 2.1 A task to solve
- 2.2 A general setup for projects
- 2.3 The first HTML generator
-
3 Rake
- 3.1 An overview
-
3.2 The simple text transformation as a
Rake
task
-
4 Guard
-
4.1
Guard
installation -
4.2 Running
Guard
– having aGuardfile
& a plug-in -
4.3 Example
Guard
usage
-
4.1
-
5 Combining
Rake
andGuard
-
5.1 The
directory
task -
5.2
Rake
’sFileList
- 5.3 A task dependency
-
5.4 A
rule
to describe how to generate the HTML files
-
5.1 The
-
6
Rake
details-
6.1 How
Rake
finds theRakefile
in a directory hierarchy - 6.2 Name spaces
- 6.3 Task Names
- 6.4 Task bodies and code blocks
- 6.5 Task dependencies
- 6.6 Task parameters
- 6.7 Rake troubles
-
6.1 How
-
7
Guard
details-
7.1 The
Guardfile
DSL - 7.2 A selection of plug-ins
-
7.1 The
-
8 Testing
Rake
tasks – overview- 8.1 You don’t test them
- 8.2 Non-Automated Testing
- 8.3 Cucumber
- 8.4 MiniTest or RSpec + Refactored Rake Tasks
- 8.5 ‘Redefine’ Rake Methods
- 8.6 Some General Remarks
-
9 Testing
Rake
tasks-
9.1 Legacy
Rake
tasks
-
9.1 Legacy
- Epilogue
- Notes
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