A simple way of running your tests cases with konira from within VIM.

This plugin provides a single command:

Konira

All arguments are able to be tab-completed.

For running tests the plugin provides 3 arguments with an optional one. These arguments are:

describe
it
file

As you may expect, those will focus on the tests for the current describe, it or the whole file.

If you are in a describe and want to run all the tests for that describe, you would call this plugin like:

:Konira describe

Whenever a command is triggered a small message displays informing you that the plugin is running a certain action. In the above call, you would see something like this:

Running tests for describe TestMydescribe

If you would like to see the complete konira output you can add an optional "verbose" flag to any of the commands for Konira. For the previous command, it would look like:

:Konira describe verbose

This would open a split scratch buffer that you can fully interact with. You can close this buffer with ':wq' or you can hit 'q' at any moment in that buffer to close it.

When tests are successful a green bar appears. If you have any number of fails you get a red bar with a line-by-line list of line numbers and errors.

I strongly encourage a mapping for the above actions. For example, if you wanted leader (the leader key is '' by default) mappings you would probably do them like this:

" Konira
nmap <silent><Leader>f <Esc>:Konira file<CR>
nmap <silent><Leader>c <Esc>:Konira describe<CR>
nmap <silent><Leader>m <Esc>:Konira it<CR>

This plugin also provides a way to jump to the actual error. Since errors can be living in a file other than your test (e.g. a syntax error in your source that triggers an assertion errro in the current file) you can also jump to that file. The list of jumping-to-error arguments are:

first
last
next
previous
end

Konira DOES NOT JUMP AUTOMATICALLY to errors. You have to call the action. When you call a jump, a split buffer is opened with a file (if it is not the same as the one you are currently editing) and places you in the same line number were the error was reported.

If an error starts in the current file but ends on a different one, you can call that end of error by calling :Konira end.

Finally, you can also display in a split scratch buffer either the last list of failed tests (with line numbers, errors and paths) or the last konira session (similar to what you would see in a terminal). The arguments that you would need to provide for such actions are:

session
fails

session is the buffer with a similar output to the terminal (but with syntax highlighting) and fails has the list of last fails with the exceptions.

If you are looking for the actual error, we have stripped it from the normal reporting but you can call it at any time with:

:Konira error

The reason behind this is that as soon as you hit any key, the quick display goes away. With a split buffer you are in control and you can quit that window when you decide - while you work on fixing errors.

The commands that open the last session and the last fails are toggable: they will close the scratch buffer if it is open or will open it if its closed.

If you have ever needed to get into a pdb session and debug your code, you already know that it is a horrible experience to be jumping between Vim and the terminal. konira.vim now includes a way of dropping to a pdb session.

konira no capture

If you are placing import pdb; pdb.set_trace() somewhere in your code and you want to drop to pdb when that code gets executed, then you need to pass in the no-capture flag:

:Konira describe -s

The above command shows describe but you can use this with all the objects supported (describe, it and file).

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