reinh / vim-makegreen

MakeGreen runs make and shows a red or green message bar for success/failure. Speeds the red-green-refactor cycle!

vim-MakeGreen

makegreen.vim is a vim (http://www.vim.org) plugin that runs make and shows the test run status with a red or green bar.

Installation

Copy all files to your ~/.vim directory or use Tim Pope's excellent pathogen plugin (http://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen).

Usage

:MakeGreen % will run make for the current file and show its status with a red or green message bar.

example:

$ cd <your rails/merb root>
$ vim test/unit/user_test.rb

:compiler rubyunit
:MakeGreen %

See the full documentation for more.

vim-makegreen's Issues

The test runner reports success if there are exceptions thrown in the spec

For example:

describe 'rspec make plugin' do
  it 'should error on the following in a bare file' do
    Foo.new
  end
end

The above in a bare file should result in the tests failing, but vim-makegreen reports them as all running. If I change the assertion to something knowably false (like false.should be_true), only then do the tests report an error.

How do I make sure ':MakeGreen %' uses `bundle exec` ..?

I'm getting this in my status line..

You have already activated rspec-core 2.13.1, but your Gemfile requires rspec-core 2.8.0. Using bundle exec may solve this. (Gem::LoadError)

Add support for vim-dispatch

Add support for @tpope's amazing vim-dispatch plugin.

Mapping conflicts with command-T

Hi and thanks a lot for this plugin.
t conflicts with command-T default mapping (which would better be ct IMHO)... may I suggest mg as a replacement ?!

Bests

Runner reports success if :make exits with non-zero status

Should detect this and return an error even if the errorformat doesn't parse an error.

Do not modify shellpipe

As mentioned in the comments to this commit, it should not be makegreen's responsibility to set the user's shellpipe. makegreen should respect the user's setting.

Make arguments should be configurable

Right now, the plugin always does "make %". This breaks in some situations (e.g., a Rails controller isn't even requireable on its own because ApplicationController won't be defined). My compiler runs all tests all the time anyway, so this breakage is doubly annoying for me.

In general, I don't like that the plugin always runs ":make %". I'd like to see the default be :make with no args, combined with a way to run on custom args if the user wants to map something for that.

Thoughts?

Stderr to sdout redirection in shellpipe

Some "make" program use stderr instead of stdout and so don't work with vim-makegreen which change the shellpipe to > while they work with :make
Ex: nosetests which is a unit testing framework for python

This small patch change the shell pipe to 2>&1 so that it works with nosetests
http://github.com/olethanh/vim-makegreen/tree/stderr

Regards
Olivier

Add vim documentation

makegreen should have vim documentation that can be accessed using :help