Flexamater!

Drive Flex from Ruby, via Javascript.

Instead of just manually clicking around to test your Flex application: automate your interface testing in Ruby, utilizing flexamater! (get it? Flex-Automater!)

Welcome! Project Home is at http://rubyforge.org/projects/flexamater/

An example of a simple Flex app to be tested http://pastie.org/217032 and http://pastie.org/217033

An example of the app being driven from ruby http://pastie.org/217032

You can get the code out of svn at http://flexamater.rubyforge.org/svn/

Flexamater's goal is to allow you to write automated unit-tests in ruby, which execute prescribed actions within your flex app and then ensure it has performed appropriately. It does this by popping up a Safari browser and driving activity within the Flex app directly from the command line.

Wanna get this example quickly up and running on your own machine to play with?

• Be on OSX Leopard, or submit code to make it work on Windows. ;o)
• Get the code from svn
• Create a rails app: rails TestFlex
• Put the checked out folder flexamater from svn in TestFlex/public
• Install rbosa: sudo gem install rubyosa
• cd into TestFlex and rails script/server
• You can now see the app at http://localhost:3000/flexamater/example_page/index.html
• cd into public/TestFlex/ruby
• run ruby example.rb , and it'll pop up Safari and drive the swf before your eyes. ;o)

Questions? Contact me!

Big thanks to blist for letting me open source this code. They rock. Expect big things.