any growl support in plans?
artemk opened this issue · comments
I'm not a growl user myself.
How do other projects handle this? Is there a standard way to integrate with growl or do all these libraries have to add growl knowledge to their internals?
Guard uses ruby_gntp for notifications.
In my opinion growl support is not really something for spin, because it's essentially a way to run TestUnit/Rspec faster. If you are running your tests manually you'll see your output already so I don't know what Growl has as an added benefit, it would only be useful if you have a really large/slow testsuite so you can do something else in the meantime.
So I would advice to just use guard-spin if you want growl support :)
@bittersweet guard-spin doesn't use growl for notifications.
Yes but in my opinion growl support should be added there and not in the main project.
i don't see why it should be added into guard-spin but not into spin itself. spin can be used without guard, and itself should support growl.
The fact is that spin doesn't really know or care about the test output. So it would be hard to generate useful growl notifications. So my point was that this would be solved better via a rspec formatted for example.
green or red notification would be enough. spin does know about success or failure result.
If you want formatted output then there are gems that will do this for you. It won't be added to spin, but spin should work fine alongside them.
I also don't see a compelling reason to add growl support. Closing for now.