Clojure Autotest

I’ve been doing a lot of testing for a clojure side project recently, and got envious of Ruby people having nice tools. In particular I liked the coloured output and automatic test running from rspactor.

I found watchr and came up with this script, which simply watches for changes to .clj files in /src and /test and runs lein test in the shell window.

To get started, install watchr

gem install watchr

and run the script in the home directory for your Leiningen-backed clojure project.

watchr /path/to/script

The script also does some (very basic) red/green colouring of outputs using zsh color codes.

Sample output: