looper

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Looper

Looper is a development tool for the Go Programming Language. It automatically runs your tests and hot compiles your code when it detects file system changes.

Status

This is an early alpha. There is still quite a lot to do (Hot Compiles, Growl notifications, and interactions for profiling, benchmarking, etc.). Also, it has only been tested on Mac OS X 10.8.

See the public Trello board for the Roadmap.

Get Going

If you are on OS X, you need to first install GNU Readline via Homebrew:

$ brew install readline

To install Looper, or to update your installation, run:

$ go get -u github.com/gophertown/looper

Then run looper in your project folder:

$ looper
Looper 0.2.1 is watching your files
Type help for help.

Watching path ./

Gat (Go Autotest)

Packages are the unit of compilation in Go. By convention, each package has a separate folder, though a single folder may also have a _test package for black box testing.

When Looper detects a change to a *.go file, it will build & run the tests for that directory. You can also run all tests against all packages at once.

To setup a Suite definition (Gocheck, PrettyTest), additional Checkers, or other test helpers, use any test file you like in the same folder (eg. suite_test.go).

Gat is inspired by Andrea Fazzi's PrettyAutoTest.

Blunderbuss (Hot Compile)

...to be determined...

Blunderbuss is inspired by shotgun, the reloading rack development server for Ruby, and devweb by Russ Cox.

Interactions

• a, all, ↩: Run all tests.
• h, help: Show help.
• e, exit: Quit Looper

Thanks

Special thanks to Chris Howey for the fsnotify package.

Documentation

Overview

Autotesting tool with readline support.