Comments on: Grails Testing Alias to Rerun Failed Tests

By: tednaleid

tednaleid — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:23:06 +0000

@Bryan, yep, test-app by default uses the test environment, but you can override it using the technique you mentioned (I do this in some apps to connect to a different datasource).

By: Brian Doyle

Brian Doyle — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:48:36 +0000

Sorry about my previous comment. It looks like the test-app command does that for you automatically.

By: Brian Doyle

Brian Doyle — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:46:26 +0000

I’m new to Groovy and Grails so this is probably a dumb question, but wouldn’t you want to set your env in your grailsTest function to: -Dgrails.env=test
Thanks.

By: tednaleid

tednaleid — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:27:46 +0000

Whoops, I didn’t know about that, thanks Mike. They must have added that fairly recently.

I just gave it a try and the behavior is a little different. It will only run failed tests, and it’s not smart about bailing out if there aren’t any failed test, so it still bootstraps the full environment and says everything was successful, even though no tests were actually run.

Some people might like that behavior better, but I like being able to run “gtaf” whether or not I have any tests that failed.

I can see why some might want the alternate behavior, so that it only runs tests if they are failed. If so, the grailsFailedTests function could be modified to this:

function grailsFailedTests() {
	grailsTest $1 $2 -rerun
}

Thanks for the pointer Mike!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:32:19 +0000

The Grails test-app script also has a built in flag to re-run failed tests. I haven’t used it much, but you might be able to simplify your logic a little bit to find failed tests using:

grails test-app -rerun

See http://grails.org/doc/latest/ref/Command%20Line/test-app.html

By: tednaleid

tednaleid — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:13:40 +0000

@Robert – Thanks! That makes sense, so people using bash would just need to change this:

function grailsTestAppFailed() { grailsFailedTests grails "" }

to this:

function grailsTestAppFailed() {
    grailsFailedTests grails ""
}

Yet another reason that I like zsh better :).

By: Robert Fischer

Robert Fischer — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:52:53 +0000

bash requires the open bracket of a function declaration to be the last element on the line. Otherwise, you’ll get confusing messages about unexpected end-of-file.