From: Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@...>
Date: 2011-08-25T10:37:22+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] test-loop 13.0.0

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Have you considered using posix_spawn instead of fork?

https://github.com/rtomayko/posix-spawn

This sounds like it'd be super useful on JRuby due to JRuby's startup time,
however JRuby doesn't support fork

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Suraj Kurapati <sunaku@gmail.com> wrote:

> Version 13.0.0 (2011-08-24)
>
> test-loop - Continuous testing for Ruby with fork/eval
>            https://github.com/sunaku/test-loop#readme
>
>
> What is it?
> -----------
>
> test-loop is a fast continuous testing tool for Ruby that automatically
> detects and tests changes in your application in an efficient manner:
>
> 1. Absorbs the test execution overhead into the main Ruby process.
> 2. Forks to run your test files without overhead and in parallel.
> 3. Avoids running unchanged test blocks inside changed test files.
>
>
> What is new?
> ------------
>
> Incompatible changes:
>
> * Pass worker sequence number as the last argument to lambda
>  functions in `Test::Loop.before_each_test` and
>  `Test::Loop.after_each_test` arrays.
>
> New features:
>
> * In the `test/loop/rails` configuration preset:
>
>  * Automatically test a controller when its model or factory is
>    modified.
>
>  * Warn the user if Railtie (Rails 3) is not available for
>    automatic disabling of Rails' class caching mechanism under the
>    test environment.
>
> * Add `test/loop/parallel_tests` configuration preset for
>  parallel_tests gem. ([Corn=E9
>  Verbruggen](https://github.com/sunaku/test-loop/issues/9))
>
> * Assign rotating sequence numbers to workers so that you can handle
>  parallel processes like connecting to separate databases better.
>  ([Corn=E9 Verbruggen](https://github.com/sunaku/test-loop/pull/10))
>
> Housekeeping:
>
> * README: move configuration presets above options.
>
> * Eliminate 1 SLOC: .rb extension used in file glob.
>
> * Turn off executable bit on loop.rb file mode.
>
> * Pass child ENV directly to exec() for atomicity.
>
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