C:\Aaron\projects>ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32]
-e:1: undefined local variable or method `rsion’ for main:Object (NameError)

C:\Aaron\projects>gem -v
1.1.1

C:\Aaron\projects>sprout -n as3 SomeProject
>> Creating new project ‘SomeProject’ with as3
>> Loading gem [sprout-as3-bundle] from http://gems.rubyforge.org with it’s dependencies
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/
Successfully installed activesupport-2.1.0
Successfully installed sprout-as3-bundle-0.2.9
2 gems installed
Installing ri documentation for activesupport-2.1.0…
Installing ri documentation for sprout-as3-bundle-0.2.9…
Installing RDoc documentation for activesupport-2.1.0…

— sprout upgraded activesupport to 2.1.0

>> Loading gem [sprout-flashplayer-bundle] from http://gems.rubyforge.org with it’s dependencies
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/
Successfully installed sprout-flashplayer-bundle-9.124.3
1 gem installed
create  SomeProject
create  SomeProject/assets/skins/SomeProject
create  SomeProject/bin
create  SomeProject/lib
create  SomeProject/script
create  SomeProject/src
create  SomeProject/test
create  SomeProject/assets/skins/SomeProject/ProjectSprouts.png
create  SomeProject/rakefile.rb
create  SomeProject/README.txt
create  SomeProject/script/generate.rb
create  SomeProject/assets/skins/SomeProjectSkin.as
create  SomeProject/src/SomeProject.as
create  SomeProject/src/SomeProjectRunner.as

C:\Aaron\projects>gem list

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

actionmailer (2.0.2)
actionpack (2.0.2)
activerecord (2.0.2)
ActiveRecord-JDBC (0.5)
activeresource (2.0.2)
activesupport (2.1.0, 2.0.2)
archive-tar-minitar (0.5.2)
capistrano (2.4.3)
fxri (0.3.6)
fxruby (1.6.12)
highline (1.4.0)
hoe (1.7.0)
hpricot (0.6)
jruby-openssl (0.2.3)
log4r (1.0.5)
net-scp (1.0.1)
net-sftp (2.0.1)
net-ssh (2.0.3)
net-ssh-gateway (1.0.0)
rails (2.0.2)
rake (0.8.1)
rspec (1.1.4)
rubigen (1.3.2)
ruby-debug-base (0.10.0)
ruby-debug-ide (0.1.10)
rubyforge (1.0.0)
rubygems-update (1.1.1)
rubyzip (0.9.1)
Selenium (1.1.14)
sources (0.0.1)
sprout (0.7.193)
sprout-as3-bundle (0.2.9)
sprout-flashplayer-bundle (9.124.3)
sqlite3-ruby (1.2.2)
test-unit (2.0.0)
watir (1.5.6)
win32-api (1.0.6, 1.0.4)
win32-clipboard (0.4.3)
win32-dir (0.3.2)
win32-eventlog (0.4.6)
win32-file (0.5.4)
win32-file-stat (1.2.7)
win32-open3 (0.2.6, 0.2.5)
win32-process (0.5.8)
win32-sapi (0.1.4)
win32-sound (0.4.1)
windows-api (0.2.3)
windows-pr (0.8.5)
ZenTest (3.10.0)

C:\Aaron\projects\SomeProject>rake
(in C:/Aaron/projects/SomeProject)
>> Loading gem [sprout-asunit3-library] from http://gems.rubyforge.org with it’s dependencies
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/
Successfully installed sprout-asunit3-library-3.2.5
1 gem installed
asunit3-1.5.zip:   100% |………………..|  24.7KB 795.7KB/s Time: 00:00:00
>> Loading gem [sprout-flex3sdk-tool] from http://gems.rubyforge.org with it’s dependencies
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/
Successfully installed sprout-flex3sdk-tool-3.0.2
1 gem installed
flex_sdk_3.zip:    100% |………………..|  78.4MB   1.5MB/s Time: 00:00:54
[WARNING] symlink() function is unimplemented on this machine for: runtimes/air/mac/Adobe AIR.framew
ork/Resources
[WARNING] symlink() function is unimplemented on this machine for: runtimes/air/mac/Adobe AIR.framew
ork/Frameworks
[WARNING] symlink() function is unimplemented on this machine for: runtimes/air/mac/Adobe AIR.framew
ork/Versions/Current
[WARNING] symlink() function is unimplemented on this machine for: runtimes/air/mac/Adobe AIR.framew
ork/Adobe AIR
>> Execute: mxmlc.exe -default-background-color=#FFFFFF -default-frame-rate=24 -default-size 970 550
-output=bin/SomeProject-debug.swf -source-path+=src -source-path+=assets -verbose-stacktraces=true
-warnings=true src/SomeProject.as
Loading configuration file C:\Documents and Settings\evansaa\Local Settings\Application Data\Sprouts
\cache.7\sprout-flex3sdk-tool-3.0.2\archive\frameworks\flex-config.xml
bin/SomeProject-debug.swf (13733 bytes)

Correctly configured mm.cfg file not found at: C:\Documents and Settings\evansaa/mm.cfg

This file is required in order to capture trace output.

Would you like this file created automatically? [Yn]

y
>> Created file: C:/Documents and Settings/evansaa/mm.cfg
>> Added C:/Aaron/projects/SomeProject/bin to Flash Player Trust file at: C:\Documents and Settings\
evansaa/Application Data/Macromedia/Flash Player/#Security/FlashPlayerTrust/sprout.cfg
>> Loading gem [sprout-flashplayer-tool] from http://gems.rubyforge.org with it’s dependencies
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/
Successfully installed sprout-flashplayer-tool-9.124.0
1 gem installed
sa_flashplayer_9_: 100% |………………..|   3.6MB   1.4MB/s Time: 00:00:02
[trace] SomeProject instantiated!

— sprouts flash app displayed

C:\Aaron\projects\SomeProject>rake test
(in C:/Aaron/projects/SomeProject)
>> Execute: mxmlc.exe -debug -default-background-color=#FFFFFF -default-frame-rate=24 -default-size
900 550 -output=bin/SomeProjectRunner.swf -source-path+=src -source-path+=assets -source-path+=test
-source-path+=lib\asunit3 -verbose-stacktraces=true -warnings=true src/SomeProjectRunner.as
Loading configuration file C:\Documents and Settings\evansaa\Local Settings\Application Data\Sprouts
\cache.7\sprout-flex3sdk-tool-3.0.2\archive\frameworks\flex-config.xml

rake aborted!
[ERROR] C:\Aaron\projects\SomeProject\src\SomeProjectRunner.as(12): col: 10 Error: Access of undefin
ed property AllTests.

start(AllTests, null, TestRunner.SHOW_TRACE);
^

(See full trace by running task with –trace)

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i386-linux]

$ gem -v
1.2.0

$ gem list –local

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

actionmailer (2.0.2)
actionpack (2.0.2)
activerecord (2.0.2)
activeresource (2.0.2)
activesupport (2.0.2)
hoe (1.7.0)
mysql (2.7)
pg (0.7.9.2008.03.18)
rails (2.0.2)
rake (0.8.1)
rspec (1.1.4)
rubyforge (1.0.0)
sqlite3-ruby (1.2.2)
test-unit (2.0.0)
ZenTest (3.10.0)

# gem install sprout
Successfully installed rubyzip-0.9.1
Successfully installed archive-tar-minitar-0.5.2
Successfully installed rubigen-1.3.2
Successfully installed net-ssh-2.0.3
Successfully installed net-sftp-2.0.1
Successfully installed open4-0.9.6
Successfully installed sprout-0.7.193-x86-linux
7 gems installed
Installing ri documentation for archive-tar-minitar-0.5.2…
Installing ri documentation for rubigen-1.3.2…
Installing ri documentation for net-ssh-2.0.3…
Installing ri documentation for net-sftp-2.0.1…
Installing ri documentation for sprout-0.7.193-x86-linux…
Installing RDoc documentation for archive-tar-minitar-0.5.2…
Installing RDoc documentation for rubigen-1.3.2…
Installing RDoc documentation for net-ssh-2.0.3…
Installing RDoc documentation for net-sftp-2.0.1…
Installing RDoc documentation for sprout-0.7.193-x86-linux…

$ sprout -n as3 FooFoo
>> Creating new project ‘FooFoo’ with as3
>> Loading gem [sprout-as3-bundle] from http://gems.rubyforge.org with it’s dependencies

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.
#3) With great power comes great responsibility.

Password:
— what password are you expecting?

sudo: 3 incorrect password attempts
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sprout-0.7.193-x86-linux/lib/sprout.rb:343:in `find_gem_spec’: Gem Spec not found for sprout-as3-bundle  (Sprout::SproutError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sprout-0.7.193-x86-linux/lib/sprout.rb:357:in `find_gem_spec’
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sprout-0.7.193-x86-linux/lib/sprout.rb:273:in `sprout’
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sprout-0.7.193-x86-linux/lib/sprout.rb:465:in `sprout’
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sprout-0.7.193-x86-linux/bin/sprout:123
from /usr/bin/sprout:19:in `load’
from /usr/bin/sprout:19

— something weird is going on, I can’t log in as root anymore– it just hangs.
problem 1: ’su -’ doesn’t work, but ’su’ does.  Is there something wrong with profile?
– ???
problem 2: I did not have sudo access — sprouts wants to install more when it creates a project
– fixed:  visudo to add %wheel rule, added aaron to wheel group

$ sprout -n as3 SomeProject
>> Creating new project ‘SomeProject’ with as3
>> Loading gem [sprout-as3-bundle] from http://gems.rubyforge.org with it’s dependencies
Password:
Successfully installed sprout-as3-bundle-0.2.9
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for sprout-as3-bundle-0.2.9…
Installing RDoc documentation for sprout-as3-bundle-0.2.9…
>> Loading gem [sprout-flashplayer-bundle] from http://gems.rubyforge.org with it’s dependencies
Successfully installed sprout-flashplayer-bundle-9.124.3
1 gem installed
create  SomeProject
create  SomeProject/assets/skins/SomeProject
create  SomeProject/bin
create  SomeProject/lib
create  SomeProject/script
create  SomeProject/src
create  SomeProject/test
create  SomeProject/assets/skins/SomeProject/ProjectSprouts.png
create  SomeProject/rakefile.rb
create  SomeProject/README.txt
create  SomeProject/script/generate
create  SomeProject/assets/skins/SomeProjectSkin.as
create  SomeProject/src/SomeProject.as
create  SomeProject/src/SomeProjectRunner.as

$ gem list –local

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

actionmailer (2.0.2)
actionpack (2.0.2)
activerecord (2.0.2)
activeresource (2.0.2)
activesupport (2.0.2)
archive-tar-minitar (0.5.2)
hoe (1.7.0)
mysql (2.7)
net-sftp (2.0.1)
net-ssh (2.0.3)
open4 (0.9.6)
pg (0.7.9.2008.03.18)
rails (2.0.2)
rake (0.8.1)
rspec (1.1.4)
rubigen (1.3.2)
rubyforge (1.0.0)
rubyzip (0.9.1)
sprout (0.7.193)
sprout-as3-bundle (0.2.9)
sprout-flashplayer-bundle (9.124.3)
sqlite3-ruby (1.2.2)
test-unit (2.0.0)
ZenTest (3.10.0)

– added:
archive-tar-minitar (0.5.2)
net-sftp (2.0.1)
net-ssh (2.0.3)
open4 (0.9.6)
rubigen (1.3.2)
rubyzip (0.9.1)
sprout (0.7.193)
sprout-as3-bundle (0.2.9)
sprout-flashplayer-bundle (9.124.3)

$ cd SomeProject
$ rake
(in /home/aaron/projects/SomeProject)
>> Loading gem [sprout-asunit3-library] from http://gems.rubyforge.org with it’s dependencies
Password:
Successfully installed sprout-asunit3-library-3.2.5
1 gem installed
asunit3-1.5.zip:   100% |………………..|  24.7KB 151.6KB/s Time: 00:00:00
>> Loading gem [sprout-flex3sdk-tool] from http://gems.rubyforge.org with it’s dependencies
Successfully installed sprout-flex3sdk-tool-3.0.2
1 gem installed
flex_sdk_3.zip:    100% |………………..|  78.4MB   1.9MB/s Time: 00:00:40
>> Execute: mxmlc -default-background-color=#FFFFFF -default-frame-rate=24 -default-size 970 550 -output=bin/SomeProject-debug.swf -source-path+=src -source-path+=assets -verbose-stacktraces=true -warnings=true src/SomeProject.as
rake aborted!
[ERROR] /home/aaron/.sprouts/cache/0.7/sprout-flex3sdk-tool-3.0.2/archive/bin/mxmlc: line 47: java: command not found

(See full trace by running task with –trace)

— installed JDK 1.5.0

$ java -version
java version “1.5.0_16″
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_16-b02)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_16-b02, mixed mode, sharing)

$ rake
(in /home/aaron/projects/SomeProject)
>> Execute: mxmlc -default-background-color=#FFFFFF -default-frame-rate=24 -default-size 970 550 -output=bin/SomeProject-debug.swf -source-path+=src -source-path+=assets -verbose-stacktraces=true -warnings=true src/SomeProject.as
Loading configuration file /home/aaron/.sprouts/cache/0.7/sprout-flex3sdk-tool-3.0.2/archive/frameworks/flex-config.xml
bin/SomeProject-debug.swf (13740 bytes)

[WARNING] FlashPlayer encountered an error working with the mm.cfg log and/or editing the Trust file
>> Loading gem [sprout-flashplayer-tool] from http://gems.rubyforge.org with it’s dependencies
Password:
Successfully installed sprout-flashplayer-tool-9.124.0
1 gem installed
flash_player_9_li: 100% |………………..|   9.1MB   1.6MB/s Time: 00:00:05
rake aborted!
can’t convert nil into String

(See full trace by running task with –trace)

$ gem list –local

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

actionmailer (2.0.2)
actionpack (2.0.2)
activerecord (2.0.2)
activeresource (2.0.2)
activesupport (2.0.2)
archive-tar-minitar (0.5.2)
hoe (1.7.0)
mysql (2.7)
net-sftp (2.0.1)
net-ssh (2.0.3)
open4 (0.9.6)
pg (0.7.9.2008.03.18)
rails (2.0.2)
rake (0.8.1)
rspec (1.1.4)
rubigen (1.3.2)
rubyforge (1.0.0)
rubyzip (0.9.1)
sprout (0.7.193)
sprout-as3-bundle (0.2.9)
sprout-asunit3-library (3.2.5)
sprout-flashplayer-bundle (9.124.3)
sprout-flashplayer-tool (9.124.0)
sprout-flex3sdk-tool (3.0.2)
sqlite3-ruby (1.2.2)
test-unit (2.0.0)
ZenTest (3.10.0)

I’m wondering if the problem is because I don’t have a GUI to run flash.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flash_selenium_04.html

Here is the download:

http://code.google.com/p/flash-selenium/

I included flash-selenium-java-client.jar into my eclipse project along with the selenium jars and junit 3.8 jar, and it ran out of the box, though I had trouble getting it to work with junit 4.  Probably cut and paste errors.  It lauches selenium (expects an existing server) and goes to a demo page and clicks on the colors.

http://www.geocities.com/paulocaroli/flash/colors.html
I don’t know the depth of the API, but it passes the sniff test.  One thing that doesn’t make sense is the inclusion of a SeleniumException library that is not used.  Maybe a pre selenium 1.0  artifact that should have been cleaned up.

The description on the google code site says:

“Selenium RC uses JavaScript to communicate with the browser. And Flash ExternalInterface provides a mechanism for which you can use JavaScript to call an ActionScript function in the Flash Player. Therefore we can use JavaScript as the conduit between Selenium RC and the Flash application”

It adds:

“You can invoke functions which were externalized by the ExternalInterface, as well as the default functions of any flash object (e.g, PercentLoaded(), IsPlaying(), etc). The following are code snapshots from the ColorsTest—the sample Seleniun based JUnit test.”

This doesn’t sound like the ideal way.  I’ll need to look more into Flex Automation API, but this looks like a quick and dirty solution to functional automation.  With the work of creating a Junit 4 base class and extending it with helper functions, it might be a framework that could be easy to use for more average testers.  I need to learn more about flash automation, and flash in general though.

Not Unit, Uint (Unit and Integration testing)

As far as I can tell so far it has an improved unit testing framework over FlexUnit, and has additional features, possibly also a GUI driven test runner for Flash apps.

From their website:

It adds support for:

• Multiple simultaneous asynchronous operations
• Asynchronous setup and teardown
• Asynchronous returns before method body completion
• Support for UIComponent testing
• Support for test sequences
• Support for testing Cairngorm commands and controllers
• XML output of testing results
• Support for auto-reload and test running based on directory watching (optional with AIR client)

Two questions–

1. Are asyc fixtures desirable (what do they mean by asyc?)

2. What is Cairngorm?

Is this the tool we want, or a step in the right direction?  I think that there’s always improvement on the xUnit frameworks.  Dependent tests and other Functional Testing centric features make TestNG far superior.   Maybe by asyc setUp and tearDown they mean like @beforeClass and @afterClass.

FlexUnit supposedly has capability to output so JunitHtmlReport can digest it.  That’s nice.  What does dpUint and ASUnit offer?

I have the same issue at work where I’m trying to use outlook Journal for tasks.  I should really just switch to notepad (EditPlus!) for that, but it doesn’t have rich text, links, and excel cut and paste.  But I don’t think journal has search.  Certainly not anything for easy navigation, not even a calendar view of the journal (to my knowledge)

And of course issues / bugs / tickets / requirements / change requests all fits in there too.  It’s document-centric, but there needs to be good navigation, association, and search of the documents by tags, categories, date, project, etc.

I’ll look into that later.

var ts:TestSuite = new TestSuite();
ts.addTest( TemperatureConverterTest.suite() );

There are a few of warnings:

return value for function ‘onCreationComplete’ has no type declaration — on ExampleTestRunner.mxml

and:

duplicate variable definition — on TemperatureConverterTest.as

but no real problems.

The syntax is enough like Junit to not warrant any comment, though again, I’m sure I’ll notice details once I delve in. An interesting project would be to port (or look for) a TestNG [link] style framework with dependencies, but that’s overkill at this point.

I’ll look for a couple more tutorials. I remember seeing one before reading this that talked about a new way to run tests. Already, I want to be able to run tests without the GUI runner. Another project would be an eclipse plugin that can run FlexUnit similar to Junit tests.

Flex.org also seems useful.

HTTPService seems to be the core for webapps, though I’m guessing there are similar elements for streaming, direct db connections, etc.

Binding and Datasources are still a bit of a mystery, and apart from learning ActionScript syntax differences from Javascript (return types are colon delimited after a method name?) and MXML elements (GUI elements are a snap with the IDE) , it’s seems fairly straightforward. A lot easier (and simpler) than I thought it would be, but just as Nate predicted.

I’m sure I’ll have other questions like packaging, string manipulation, and performance rules as I learn, but I feel I’ve wet my feet. I checked out like 4 (5) e-books on Safari and will thumb through them when I get time.

ActionScript: The Definitive Guide

Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns

Getting Started with Flex 3

Learning ActionScript

Object Oriented Programming with ActionScript

The first I’m going through is “Getting Started…” which is really more an introductory essay.

Ran into a little trouble finding Eclipse 3.3.2 because I did it on the day Ecliipse 3.4 (Ganymede) came out.  Luckily I had a spare copy that wasn’t customized.  I spent some frustrating time trying to download the full bundle [link], but it would fail before completing.  Blame Firefox for not having a real download manager, and my internet connection.  Anyway, I did get the plugin, since it was only 300MB vs 400MB (is the flexbuilder plugin really 3 times the size of Eclipse?)  and it’s working fine, no trouble with the installation.

I ran a couple of quick tutorials, including the FlickrRIA example [link] that is linked to from the download page.  No problem.