Re: Ruby and CruiseControl

> On 6/27/06, Johan Nilsson <r.johan.nilsson@...> wrote:
>> Edward Summers wrote:
>>> So I saw some talk way back when about a RakeBuilder for
>>> CruiseControl...but I don't see any established way of integrating
>>> CC with Ruby.  I can schedule an <exec> just fine, and can see when
>>> builds fail using the return code...but I'd like to be able to see
>>> which tests failed etc...
>>>
>>> Has anyone cooked up something for CC that groks test/unit output?
>>> If not does anyone have an opinion about how fruitful/easy it would
>>> be to create one?
>>
>> I guess you could implement your own xml output testrunner, and
>> merge the output to the log. I think there's already an xml
>> testrunner but I'd guess the format's not junit compatible (is the
>> junit format actually documented somewhere?).
>>
>> We're in the middle of testing/implementing a transforming log merger
>> plug-in, accepting an XSLT file as argument, for similar reasons to
>> yours. Can't release the source though.
>
> output doesn't need to fully match the ant output, only the parts that
> CC's unittests.xsl uses. as long as you can get a file w/the test
> output from ruby (xml or even plain text) should be easy to write
> something to convert it into the appropriate file format and then
> merge.  I even did this at one point for WinRunner -- wrote a custom
> ant task to convert their plain text output into an xml file.