merimee

Pour parler sans ambiguïté, ce dîner à Sainte-Adresse, près du Havre, malgré les effluves embaumés de la mer, malgré les vins de très bons crus, les cuisseaux de veau et les cuissots de chevreuil prodigués par l’amphitryon, fut un vrai guêpier.

merimee adds some rspec macros (Test::Case to come ... maybe) to add automatic spell checking to your tests.

Install

In your Gemfile

# :require => false is important here.
# If not, merimee may not hook properly if it's loaded before rspec-rails
# You'll require it in your spec_helper.rb manually
gem 'merimee', :require => false

Usage

Rspec/rails

Just drop a require 'merimee' in your spec_helper.rb. It gives you the following in your views :

describe 'splash/index' do
  it_should_have_correct_spelling
end

# Which is equivalent to
describe 'splash/logout' do
  it "should have a correct spelling" do
    render
    rendered.should have_a_correct_spelling
  end
end

Standalone use

Well, you need to initalize a Merimee::Checker with a Merimee::Config

checker = Merimee::Checker.new do |config|
  # Configure if needed
end
# checker = Merimee::Checker.new would be equivalent here
# checker = Merimee::Checker.new(Merime::Config.new) too

checker.check('This text has one BIGE error')
=> [BIGE spelling]

Error objects have some interesting fields (type, suggestions, url, description), inspect them to know more.

Configuration

The config object has the following methods/arguments :

Merime::Checker.new do |config|
  # Ignore OHAI spelling errors. This is case sensitive for now, feel free to tell me if you feel it shouldn't be the case.
  config.dict_add 'OHAI' 
  config.dict_add %w{Trealiu Chtulu} # Ignore other words, method takes any enumerable too !

  # Ignore all words contained in blah.txt, one per line
  config.dict_add_file 'blah.txt'

  # English by default, but AfterTheDeadline also supports French(fr), Spanish(es), German(de), Portuguese(pt)
  config.language = 'en' 

  # AtD says that you should provide a key, unique per use. You don't need to register/get it, but
  # you can't have more than one request on their servers at the same time with the same key.
  # Since merimee is intended for test mode, it should be fine.
  config.api_key = 'blah' 
  
  # You can ignore some types of errors.
  # Some are already ignored by default, see Merimee::DEFAULT_IGNORE_TYPES in lib/merimee/config.rb
  config.ignore 'spelling', 'grammar'
  # You can also include some types that were ignored
  config.error 'cliches', 'double negatives'
end

Configuration with RSpec

You can still modify your config within RSpec :

#In your spec_helper.rb
require 'merimee'

RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.merimee_config.dict_add 'ignoreThisWord'
end

Or you can set your config in your test (for example to ignore just a word in one view) :

describe "blah/index" do
  it_should_have_correct_spelling do |config|
    config.dict_add "mybrand"
  end
end

Known issues

See https://github.com/atwam/merimee/issues Feel free to fork, send request (especially for Test::Case ... I'm a bit lazy for that).

License

This gem is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE.md

Thanks etc.

This gem was based on some code from https://github.com/msepcot/after_the_deadline