Slow down a test thread so that the asset happens way after some code runs

[Jonathan Silverman]

I am trying to use guard in RubyMotion with bacon and having some success.

However, sometimes I want to run a slow piece of code and then wait a few seconds, until it finishes.

How can I wait for a part of bacon to catch up before testing something?

I mean like a Timeout thingy maybe?

I know there was a way to do this with Iphone's asynchronicity everywhere. LMK

Thanks,

jsilver

[Justin Campbell]

Have you tried simply using sleep?

# setup some stuff

sleep 3

# asset some stuff

-Justin

[Justin Campbell]

assert*

-Justin

[Mateus]

since Rubymotion uses MacBacon, it should be possible to use this:

  it 'should perform a long running operation' do
    @ary.performSelector("addObject:", withObject:"soup", afterDelay:0.5)
    wait 0.6 do
      @ary.size.should.be 1
    end
  end

for more information: https://github.com/alloy/MacBacon#whirl-wind-tour

[Jonathan Silverman]

Thanks Justin and Mateus.

Yes, have tried using sleep. I will try again with sleep and wait. This is just definitely something to be aware of when moving around from Rails to RM. :)

[Jonathan Silverman]

This is exactly what I was looking for