Migrating from Test::Unit to RSpec

jacqui@streeteasy.com (Jacqui) — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:43:00 GMT

We recently moved all of our test suite from Test::Unit to RSpec with great ease and success. I wrote up a summary of our process so that you too could get your app on specs.

You can check out the original article here.

Git in your prompt

cj@streeteasy.com (Corey) — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:59:00 GMT

I like to know what git branch I have checked out. A constant, in-my-face acknowledgment that I am not committing changes to some obscure branch I checked out the night before. It’s easy enough to merge these changes into the correct branch, but I need more.

The solution? Put it in your prompt.

When I’m in a git repo with the master branch checked-out I want my prompt to look like this my_git_project(master) %
otherwise leave out the git stuff ~ %

Here is a simplified version of what I stuck in my ~/.zshrc file.

setopt prompt_subst
parse_git_branch() {
  git branch —no-color 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/(\1)/'
}
PROMPT='%c$(parse_git_branch) %% '

How this works

setopt prompt_subst: Tells zsh that I want it to evaluate my prompt string every time it is printed.
parse_git_branch: Lists all the branches in the current git repo. Sed removes everything but the checked-out branch from the git output. If the current directory isn’t in a git repo, then it just redirects the errors to /dev/null
PROMPT=’c$(parse_git_branch) %% ’: Prints out the current directory name and the git branch if it exists. Remember to you ’ instead of ” because otherwise zsh won’t evaluate the parse_git_branch function.

For you bash folks this should work nicely.

function parse_git_branch {
  git branch —no-color 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/(\1) /'
}
PS1="\w\$(parse_git_branch) $ "

update

Geoffrey Grosenbach (aka TopFunky) created a version for tcsh as well. The gist of it is…

setenv GIT_BRANCH_CMD "sh -c 'git branch —no-color 2> /dev/null' | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/(\1)/'" 
set prompt="[$HOST %~ `$GIT_BRANCH_CMD`]"

But you can get a more detailed example here.

OHAI

sd@notso.net (Sebastian) — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 06:02:00 GMT

Because the world really needs more of this:

cj: The de-conorize Global! 
http://www.thelucid.com/articles/2007/11/07/minimize-parentheses-in-textmate
conor: I will write maximize-parentheses!
jd: PARENTHESES!? THIS IS SPARTAAAA!!!!!!11
conor: lolparens
jd: (O HAI!)
cj: TONIGHT WE DINE ON LISP!
jd: http://nessparta.ytmnd.com/

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Migrating from Test::Unit to RSpec

Git in your prompt

OHAI