Joseph Wilk

Joseph Wilk

Things with code, creativity and computation.

Fake Execution

A little RubyGem for faking out execution in your tests and inspecting afterwards what was run.

Why FakeExecution?

I’ve been creating internal tools for developers to help improve productivity. These tools written in Ruby, ended up doing lots of shell scripting. These scripts started becoming fairly complicated so I wanted some test feedback. How could I easily test execution?

Enter FakeExecution.

Installing

gem install fake_execution

How do I use it?

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require 'fake_execution/safe'

FakeExecution.activate!

`echo *` # This is not executed

`git checkout git://github.com/josephwilk/fake-execution.git`
`touch monkeys`
system("git add monkeys")
system('git commit -m "needs more monkeys"')
`git push`

FakeExecution.deactivate!

cmds[0].should =~ /echo/
cmds[1].should =~ /git checkout/
cmds[2].should == 'touch monkeys'

`echo *` # outputs: echo *

But I use Rspec

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 require 'fake_execution/spec_helper'

 describe "monkeys" do
   include FakeExecution::SpecHelpers

   it "should touch the monkey" do
     `touch monkey`

     cmds[0].should == 'touch monkey'
   end
 end

Source code

http://github.com/josephwilk/fake_execution

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