Lark Group

Fix ci_reporter for Test::Unit 2.0

We’ve recently moved one of our large projects to Jenkins (nee Hudson) for continuous integration. Overall it was a reasonably pleasant setup experience, but one thing kept me flummoxed for ages: getting the results from our Test::Unit run to show up correctly in the Jenkins interface as a nicely formatted Test Result – wading through tons of raw Test::Unit console output was definitely No Fun. All the information I could find on the internet pointed to installing the ci_reporter, but including that in was doing me no good at all.

Eventually I discovered that that ci_reporter has not yet been fixed to work with Test::Unit 2.1+, or with ruby 1.9.2 for that matter.

And from there, finally the answer: a 13-line patch that makes the ci_reporter magic work with recent builds of Test::Unit. Now our test output is much prettier, I’m much happier, and with luck this note will help someone else in the same situation.