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Lately I've been writing a lot of tests. To shorten the round trip times and for some comfort I wanted to run tests in Emacs: I don't need to switch to the console and I can simply hit enter on an error message to get to the right file at the right position.

While projectile-rails supports running rake tasks, rake can only run the complete test suite or single test cases, not just a single test. This increases the round trip time too much for me, so Emacs to the rescue! I wrote some elisp to run a single rails test:

(defun get-current-test-name ()
  (save-excursion
    (let ((pos)
          (test-name))
      (re-search-backward "test \"\\([^\"]+\\)\" do")
      (setq test-name (buffer-substring-no-properties (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1)))
      (concat "test_" (replace-regexp-in-string " " "_" test-name)))))


(defun run-test-at-point ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((root-dir (projectile-project-root)))
    (compile (format "ruby -Ilib:test -I%s/test %s -n %s" root-dir (expand-file-name (buffer-file-name)) (get-current-test-name)))))

This little snippet runs the test at point, so the test the cursor is currently located in. I bound it to C-cct.