Archives: January 25, 2009

Autotest and add_exception method

Stuff floating on intrawebs for adding more files to be ignored using “add_exception” may not work because by the time “run” hook gets a chance to run, files to be ignored regexp is already compiled. The alternative is to use “initialize” hook like this:

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Autotest.add_hook :initialize do |at|
  at.add_exception(/^(coverage|\.git)/)
end

This is with 3.11.0 of ZenTest and YMMV.