[rspec-users] a custom progress bar formatter

[Pat Maddox]

"nicholas a. evans" <nick at ekenosen.net> writes:

> I've always been a little bit bemused by the default ruby test/unit and
> rspec output.  Basically, what I want is a progress bar and that any
> errors and warnings be displayed immediately. I also want warnings to be
> printed for slow specs. When using color, I want the entire progress bar
> printed in green if everything is good, yellow if there has been a
> warning, and red if there has been an error.
>
> And then I remembered that rspec makes it super easy to write your own
> custom formatter.  So I did.  :-)
>
> http://ekenosen.net/nick/devblog/2008/12/better-progress-bar-for-rspec/
>
> Let me know what you think.  Is this useful to anyone?  Any ideas for
> improvements?

Cool idea!

Pat