RspecHue

RspecHue is a formatter for RSpec that will show the status of your tests to the entire office using Philips Hue.

Note: Early version..

gem 'rspec-hue'

And then execute:

$ bundle

RspecHue depends on the Huey gem that will auto-discover your Philips Hue using SSDP. Or if you want, you can configure it to use a static ip-address.

On first usage, you will have to press the link button on your Hue when prompted, or right before running your first test with the Hue formatter.

You'll have to configure the formatter using RSpec.configure, usually in your spec_helper.rb. This is the minimal required configuration for RspecHue (not really, Huey will find a bulb, but I wouldn't count on it):

RSpec.configure do |config|
    config.rspec_hue_light_id = 1 
end

Available settings are:

RSpec.configure do |config|
    config.rspec_hue_light_id = "light name" # could be name or an id, depending on how you named your lights
    # optional settings: 
    config.rspec_hue_ip = "10.0.1.92" # Will disable auto-discover and use this static ip
    config.rspec_hue_api_user = "29b6dc6100397272a74dd2a1f6f545b" # if you want to use another api user in your Hue 
    # The default colors, could be overridden. 
    # See mention below for color syntax.
    config.rspec_hue_failed_color = { bri: 183, ct: 500, xy: [ 0.6731, 0.3215 ] } # red, default for failing specs
    config.rspec_hue_passed_color =  { bri: 57, ct: 500, xy: [ 0.408, 0.517 ] } # green, default for passing specs
end

In your .rspec add:

    --format RspecHue

The config.rspec_hue_light_id refers either to an light id or a light name. See the Hue dev docs. Name can be easily be changed from the iPhone App or the Mac Colors for Hue.

See Hue dev docs or Huey#bulbs. You could also set the color, using your iPhone Hue-app or the Mac Colors for Hue, and then check the parameters using the Hue REST-interface (there seems to be a 100s cache for this call, so if it doesn't change, wait and refresh).

In our office, we have one lamp per developer and we named them after the developer's name. Then, we configure as:

RSpec.configure do |config|
    config.rspec_hue_light_id = `git config user.name`.strip
end

This will pull the name from the developer's git config and use it to find hers/his light.

RSpecHue will not break tests if the Hue isn't found, or if the rspec_hue_light_id isn't accessible, but will output an one-liner error message.

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request