run guard cucumber features if (and only if) guard rspec passes

[Brandon Faloona]

Greetings-

I have rspec and cucumber guards in my Guardfile but I'd like to run cucumber features if (and only if) my rspec tests ALL pass. Is that possible?

[Michael Kessler]

Hi

It's not supported out of the box, but you can achieve it by using callbacks.

guard :rspec do
…
# Trigger all Cucumber features when all Specs passed
callback(:all_end) do
unless Guard.guards(:rspec).instance_variable_get('@last_failed')
Guard.run_all({ :guard => Guard.guards(:cucumber) })
end
end
end

@thibaudgg: Would be nice to have an accessor for `@last_failed` :P

Michael

[Thibaud Guillaume-Gentil]

Good point @netzpirat, I added an accessor for last_failed & failed_paths in guard-rspec release 2.1.1.

Thanks!

Thibaud

[Jared Moody]

Isn't the hook :run_all_end? I think this little snipped would be a good candidate for a wiki page; since this is how autospec works, I was looking for a way to make it the same.

[Rémy Coutable]

Yep it's :run_all_end, good catch!

Feel free to create a Wiki page for that!

Rémy

[Jared Moody]

I was thinking this should go on the guard-cucumber github wiki, but it doesn't look like wiki pages are enabled.

[Jared Moody]

er, maybe just I'm not a contributor

[Rémy Coutable]

Hi,

Just wanted to let you know that there's actually a useful feature (not documented in the README but in Rubydoc.info: http://rubydoc.info/gems/guard/Guard/Group) in Guard that allows you to halt Guard plugins execution inside a group if one of the plugins throws :task_has_failed. Each Guard plugins has to implement this but luckily for you guard-rspec does implement it: https://github.com/guard/guard-rspec/blob/master/lib/guard/rspec.rb#L40

To take advantage of this feature, simple put your rspec and your cucumber plugins in the same group and set the :halt_on_fail group option to true.

Like this:

group :specs, halt_on_fail: true do

  guard :rspec do

    watch(...)

  end

  guard :cucumber do

    watch(...)

  end

end

I think in your case, you'll have to set a "watch" that run all the cucumber specs everytime (and it'll actually run only when the specs pass).

Hope that helps!

Regards,

Rémy