Guard::PHPUnit

PHPUnit guard allows to automatically & intelligently launch tests when files are modified.

Tested on MRI Ruby (1.8.7, 1.9.2, 1.9.3), REE and Rubinius.

Install

Please be sure to have Ruby running on your machine. The latest versions of Ruby come with a packages-manger called Gem. Gem can be used to install various packages, including PHPUnit guard.

Before you continue, also make sure you have the Guard gem installed

To install the PHPUnit gem, run the following command in the terminal:

gem install guard-phpunit

Usage

Please read the Guard usage documentation.

Guardfile

Guard::PHPUnit can be used with any kind of PHP projects that uses PHPUnit as its testing framwork. Please read the Guard documentation for more information about the Guardfile DSL.

By default, Guard::PHPUnit will use the current working directory (pwd) to search for tests and run them on start (if you enabled the :all_on_start option).

Example PHP project

The PHPUnit documentaion uses the Object Freezer library as an example on how to organize tests. This project uses the Tests directory for its tests.

An example of the Guardfile for the same project would look something like:

guard 'phpunit', :tests_path => 'Tests', :cli => '--colors' do
  # Watch tests files
  watch(%r{^.+Test\.php$})

  # Watch library files and run their tests
  watch(%r{^Object/(.+)\.php}) { |m| "Tests/#{m[1]}Test.php" }
end

Options

The following options can be passed to Guard::PHPUnit:

:all_on_start => false        # Run all tests on startup.
                              # default: true

:all_after_pass => false      # Run all tests after changed tests pass. This ensures
                              # that the process of making changed tests pass didn't
                              # break something else.
                              # default: true

:keep_failed => false         # Remember failed tests and keep running them with
                              # each change until they pass.
                              # default: true

:tests_path => 'tests'        # Relative path to the tests directory. This path
                              # is used when running all the tests.
                              # default: the current working directory (pwd)

:cli => '--colors'            # The options passed to the phpunit command
                              # when running the tests.
                              # default: nil

Development

• Source hosted at GitHub
• Report issues/Questions/Feature requests on GitHub Issues

Pull requests are very welcome! Make sure your patches are well tested. Please create a topic branch for every separate change you make.

Author

Maher Sallam