In work we have tooling that automatically runs tests when you save a file from
your editor, saving you from pressing up arrow, return to run them manually.
I decided to implement that for use when I’m coding in my own time:
inotify_wrapper.
Usage is straightforward:
Watch the specified files and run the binary when they change.
Usage: inotify_wrapper file1 [file2 ...] -- binary [args ...]
Files will not be passed to the binary, the caller needs to do that if
required.
E.g. run Golang tests whenever *.go changes: inotify_wrapper *.go -- go test
I also wrote several wrappers for even easier use:
- igocover: Golang coverage
- igotest: Golang tests
- iphpunit: PHP tests
- ipylint: Python lint
- ipytest: Python coverage
The tooling is very simple - watch files, run binary - so you can wrap anything,
e.g. for C programming it would be inotify_wrapper *.c *.h -- make, for
LaTeX it would be inotify_wrapper *.tex -- latex main.tex, and so on.