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.
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
-
Preface
- Who is this book for?
- Assumptions
- Icons used in the book
- Setup & Environment
-
Using
Filefiles
- 1. Introduction
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2. First experiments
- 2.1 A task to solve
- 2.2 A general setup for projects
- 2.3 The first HTML generator
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3. Rake
- 3.1 An overview
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3.2 The simple text transformation as a
Raketask
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4. Guard
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4.1
Guardinstallation -
4.2 Running
Guard– having aGuardfile& a plug-in -
4.3 Example
Guardusage
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4.1
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5. Combining
RakeandGuard-
5.1 The
directorytask -
5.2
Rake’sFileList - 5.3 A task dependency
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5.4 A
ruleto describe how to generate the HTML files
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5.1 The
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6.
Rakedetails-
6.1 How
Rakefinds theRakefilein 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
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6.1 How
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7.
Guarddetails-
7.1 The
GuardfileDSL - 7.2 A selection of plug-ins
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7.1 The
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8. Testing
Raketasks – 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
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9. Testing
Raketasks-
9.1 Legacy
Raketasks
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9.1 Legacy
- Epilogue
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