Steps to creating a Ruby project with RSpec for BDD and Guard for continuous testing

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Pre-requisite:

1. RVM is used
2. In the version of ruby that is used, bundler gem is installed [ implied that it is global]

Steps:

1. Create a project structure using bundler bundle gem game_of_life create game_of_life/Gemfile create game_of_life/Rakefile create game_of_life/.gitignore create game_of_life/game_of_life.gemspec create game_of_life/lib/game_of_life.rb create game_of_life/lib/game_of_life/version.rb

2. Get into the project directory $ cd game_of_life/

3. Create .rvmrc and containing the following line: rvm use ruby-1.9.2-p290@kata

4. Open Gemfile and ensure see that the contents are as below:

source "http://rubygems.org"

#Specify your gem's dependencies in game_of_life.gemspec #gemspec ###Commented this line to get rid of bundler error. gem 'rspec' # Adding RSpec to the existing file content

5. Open spec/spec_helper.rb and make its contents as below $LOAD_PATH.unshift File.dirname(FILE) $LOAD_PATH.unshift File.join(File.dirname(FILE),'..','lib') require 'rspec_autotest_template'

RSpec.configure do |c| #... end

6. Open Rakefile and make its contents as below so that rake by default runs the Rspec suite require 'rake' require 'rspec/core/rake_task'

RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new(:spec) do |t| t.rspec_opts = %w(--color --format progress) end

task :default => :spec

7. Adding Guard to Project

   Add the following to the Gemfile gem 'rspec'

    gem 'guard-rspec'
    gem 'rb-inotify'
    gem 'libnotify'
   

   In terminal run the following: $ bundle install $ guard init //will generate empty guard file which might not be of use to us $ guard init rspec //will be useful as it will create a Guardfile with a watch list based on RSpec framework. Ain't that cool?

      $ guard [start]
      $ bundle exec guard [start]