Segment7: ZenTest Reaches 1000 Downloads

ZenTest Reaches 1000 Downloads

drbrain@segment7.net (Eric Hodel) — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:11:08 -0700

Today ZenTest crossed one thousand downloads!

The latest release of ZenTest contains zentest, Test::Rails and the incredibly cool (and my personal favorites) unit_diff and autotest.

ZenTest is my secret weapon for speedy, bug free development. autotest keeps me focused by intelligently rerunning my tests as I modify my code while unit_diff lets me easily decipher my failures. Test::Rails provides me a rich assertion library that makes writing tests for my Rails applications a breeze.

I’m not the only person who loves ZenTest though, Sean Carley first fell in love with unit_diff then took the step of integrating ZenTest with emacs while working with Pat Eyler doing Ping-Pong Pairing on their secret project.

Don’t have ZenTest installed? Install the gem!

$ sudo gem install ZenTest
Successfully installed ZenTest-3.2.0
Installing ri documentation for ZenTest-3.2.0...
Installing RDoc documentation for ZenTest-3.2.0...

"ZenTest Reaches 1000 Downloads" by Eric Hodel

Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:21:17 -0700

I’m giving your project an air of mystery!

"ZenTest Reaches 1000 Downloads" by Pat Eyler

Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:16:36 -0700

The project is not so secret, what might be a secret is that we’re using it to infect others with ZenTest. I’ve turned people on to it while hacking at the urug/slc.rb hacking lunches and the urug/utahvalley.rb hacking nights. I think Sean’s been showing it off to rubyists at the stl.rb hacking meetings, and may be doing a presentation about it soon.