Ubuntu autotest goodness with test_notifier

I've been using autotest for my Rails 3 app for some time now—in case you don't know or use autotest: you should! Running your test suite by hand all the time (you do have a test suite, right?) quickly becomes a chore otherwise and once you stop running your tests frequently ... Cthulhu and stuff, y'know—and just came across test_notifier as mentioned in this blog post. I was aware of people's scripting solutions for notifications using notify_send before but always too lazy to just copy and paste things (because then I would have to look at it in order to understand it—which I feel I don't have to do as much when using some package someone built for something. It's ... complicated.) so I kept the terminal running autotest open on some screen somewhere.

Now, test_notifier is one gem to install and two lines of code in your ~/.autotest and there you go:

Nice, innit?