Setup Rcov with Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu

May 3, 2009

Rrcov is a code coverage tool for Ruby. First of all we install it with Ruby gems.

sudo gem install rcov

Then we create a file lib/tasks/rcov.rake in your rails project.

require 'rcov/rcovtask'
Rcov::RcovTask.new do |t|
  t.test_files = FileList['test/unit/*.rb'] + FileList['test/functional/*.rb']
  t.rcov_opts = ['--rails', '-x /var/lib', '--text-report', '--sort coverage']
  t.output_dir = 'doc/coverage'
  t.libs << "test"
  t.verbose = true
end

You can change the options for your own usage. I like these options because worst covered files appeared on the top of the list. The HTML output is written in the folder doc/coverage. Then to run rcov you just enter.

rake rcov

No implicit conversion from nil to integer

If you got the following error.

no implicit conversion from nil to integer (TypeError)

You should edit the file /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/formatters/pretty.rb and replace this line

place = string.rindex(' ', width) # Position in string with last ' '

by this one

place = string.rindex(' ', width) || width # Position in string with last ' '

Stack level too depp

If you got the following error.

/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/formatters/pretty.rb:129:in `wrap': stack level too deep (SystemStackError)

You should edit the file /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rcov-0.8.1.2.0/lib/rcov/report.rb and replace the following line.

if RUBY_VERSION == "1.8.6" && defined? REXML::Formatters::Transitive

by this one

if RUBY_VERSION == "1.8.7" && defined? REXML::Formatters::Transitive

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