Comments on: Albacore v0.2.0 Preview 1 Is Available

By: Hibri

Hibri — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:07:12 +0000

Good job.

I’m converting all my builds slowly over to rake and albacore :)

By: Jim Evans

Jim Evans — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:18:08 +0000

Sweet! I don’t know how I missed the .parameters attribute. That will do nicely.

By: derick.bailey

derick.bailey — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:50:54 +0000

hey Jim – those two options are probably going to be the next ones I put in. i don’t have a time frame off-hand, though.

but until they are supported officially, you can still specify them via the .parameters attribute. it’s a little bit ugly, but it gets the job done for now:

csc :build do |csc|
csc.parameters(
“/doc:my.assembly.name.xml”,
“/resource:filename[,identifier[,accessibility-modifier]]”
)
end

hope that helps, or at least gets you on the path.

By: Jim Evans

Jim Evans — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:37:10 +0000

I’d love to start using Albacore for the project I’m working on, but until the csc task supports the /resource and /doc switches, I really can’t do so. I know the csc task is brand new, but do you have any ideas how long it might take to implement the csc task more fully?

By: Cory

Cory — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:18:06 +0000

Derick,

It worked like a charm. Thanks again!

By: derick.bailey

derick.bailey — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:51:56 +0000

Hey Cory,

You should be able to accomplish that with the FileList class that rake includes:

nunit.assemblies = FileList["Src/test/*.UnitTests/bin/Debug/*.UnitTests.dll"]

the FileList class will turn your glob into an expanded array of files. you might need to do the substitution on / still, but that would be easy:

nunit.assemblies = FileList["Src/test/*.UnitTests/bin/Debug/*.UnitTests.dll"].gsub(“/”, “\\”)

Hope that helps!

By: Cory

Cory — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:35:09 +0000

Derick,

Thanks for a great tool. I just started using it this week, and I’ve managed to get albacore/rake to do most of what I need despite not really knowing ruby or rake very well (working on that). One thing I was wondering about is being able to specify globs for the assemblies parameter of nunit (and possibly other test) tasks. I tried it manually, but because it seems to put quotes around the entire string, that didn’t work. Also, using forward slashes seems to throw nunit for a loop, so it requires a substitution.

I ended up just doing it all manually using the sh command to execute the console runner (still using albacore for msbuild). I’d love to see globs work directly with albacore, though.

Here’s an example of what I’m thinking:

nunit.assemblies = “Src/test/*.UnitTests/bin/Debug/*.UnitTests.dll”

Of course, given my lack of knowledge/experience with ruby and rake, I could well just be missing something simple.