RCov - Code Coverage for Ruby

Why? What?

This is our fork of Mauricio Fernandez's RCov (maintained by [Relevance] 2).

NOTE: This fork does not work on Ruby 1.9.x. For coverage on Ruby 1.9 look at [SimpleCov] 3.

Install

gem install rcov

Bugs and Issues

[RCov Issues on GitHub] 1

More Info

rcov README

Rcov is a code coverage tool for Ruby. It is commonly used for viewing overall test coverage of target code. It features:

cross-referenced XHTML and several kinds of text reports
support for easy automation with Rake
colorblind-friendliness

Requirements

Ruby 1.8.6 or higher
(recommended) C compiler: you can also use rcov without the rcovrt extension but rcov will be two orders of magnitude slower. The extension requires Ruby 1.8.6 or higher.

Normal install

De-compress the archive and enter its top directory. Then type:

($ su)
# ruby setup.rb

This simple step installs rcov under the default location for Ruby libraries. You can also customize the installation by supplying some options to setup.rb. Try ruby setup.rb --help.

A normal (rcovrt-enabled) install requires Ruby >= 1.8.6 and a working C toolchain; if you cannot compile Ruby extensions proceed as described below.

Install without the rcovrt extension

($su )
# ruby setup.rb all --without-ext

will install rcov without building the rcovrt extension.

Usage

In the common scenario, your tests are under test/ and the target code (whose coverage you want) is in lib/. In that case, all you have to do is use rcov to run the tests (instead of testrb), and a number of XHTML files with the code coverage information will be generated, e.g.

rcov -Ilib test/*.rb

will execute all the .rb files under test/ and generate the code coverage report for the target code (i.e. for the files in lib/) under coverage/. The target code needs not be under lib/; rcov will detect is as long as it is required by the tests. rcov is smart enough to ignore "uninteresting" files: the tests themselves, files installed in Ruby's standard locations, etc. See rcov --help for the list of regexps rcov matches filenames against.

rcov can also be used from Rake; see doc/readme_for_rake or the RDoc documentation for more information. The Rakefile included in rcov's sources holds a few tasks that run rcov on itself, producing a number of reports. You can try

rake rcov

preferably after a full install or

ruby setup.rb config
ruby setup.rb setup

so that the rcovrt extension can be used to speed up the process. This will generate a cross-referenced XHTML report under coverage/.

rcov can output information in several formats, and perform different kinds of analyses in addition to plain code coverage. See rcov --help for a description of the available options.

License

rcov is licensed under the same terms as Ruby. See LICENSE.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
Neither the name of ePark Labs nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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