# Ci\_reporter user guide? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [July 21, 2007, 1:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ci-reporter-user-guide/109999 "2007-07-21T01:30:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![maung](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@maung](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/maung)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 1:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ci-reporter-user-guide/109999/1 "2007-07-21T01:30:46Z")
Hi, I am new to ruby. I’ve googled for ci\_reporter user guide, but i found little helpful results. Could anyone have a clue where i can get support for reporter? My real question is how to get xml output ruby. Earlier, someone on the forum point me out that ci\_reporter has this functionality. ci\_reporter has method called to\_xml, but I don’t really know how to use it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, maung ---
**Author:** ![maung](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@maung](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/maung)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 8:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ci-reporter-user-guide/109999/2 "2007-07-21T08:14:52Z")
On 7/20/07, Maung A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi, > I am new to ruby. I’ve googled for ci\_reporter user guide, but i found > little helpful results. Could anyone have a clue where i can get support > for reporter? My real question is how to get xml output ruby. Earlier, > someone on the forum point me out that ci\_reporter has this > functionality. ci\_reporter has method called to\_xml, but I don’t really > know how to use it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. First link on google for “ci\_reporter” gets you here: [http://caldersphere.rubyforge.org/ci\_reporter/](http://caldersphere.rubyforge.org/ci_reporter/) Please let me know what in the documentation is unclear. /Nick ---
**Author:** ![maung](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@maung](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/maung)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 8:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ci-reporter-user-guide/109999/3 "2007-07-21T08:28:53Z")
On 7/20/07, Maung A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi, > I am new to ruby. I’ve googled for ci\_reporter user guide, but i found > little helpful results. Could anyone have a clue where i can get support > for reporter? My real question is how to get xml output ruby. Earlier, > someone on the forum point me out that ci\_reporter has this > functionality. ci\_reporter has method called to\_xml, but I don’t really > know how to use it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Re-reading your question, it sounds like you want a general to\_xml method for Ruby objects. ci\_reporter does not do this, it’s meant to be used with your unit tests to generate xml reports (again see doco link). Perhaps you want to look at the xml serialization code in Rails, which requires you to use either simple hashes and arrays, or ActiveRecord. [http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/Array/Conversions.html#M000375](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/Array/Conversions.html#M000375) [http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/Hash/Conversions.html#M000361](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/Hash/Conversions.html#M000361) [http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/XmlSerialization.html#M000910](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/XmlSerialization.html#M000910) /Nick ---
**Author:** ![maung](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@maung](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/maung)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ci-reporter-user-guide/109999/4 "2007-07-23T19:51:01Z")
Hi Nick, Thanks for your response. I am very new to ruby, so please bear with me. I am using Ruby, Watir and Test/unit, not Ruby on rails. My first question will be if i can use ci\_reporter with the tools i mentioned above. I found out that I need to use ci\_reporter with Rake. What I am trying to achieve is that test login a website and check if successful. I used test/unit assert to validate the result. I need to get the output from running ruby as XML file so that I can use in cruisecontrol application. But I don’t know how to use to\_xml method in my rake file or ruby. This is another question. Since I use test/unit, I put the following line in my rake file: require ‘rubygems’ gem ‘ci\_reporter’ require ‘ci/reporter/rake/test\_unit’ # use this if you’re using Test::Unit according to the documentation. When try to run it, I got this error message: c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ci\_reporter-1.3.3/lib/ci/reporter/rake/test\_unit.rb:5: undefined method `namespace' for main:Object (NoMethodError) from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem\_original\_require’ from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in `require’ from Rakefile.rb:3 I don’t really know what is causing it. Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks, maung Nick S. wrote: > On 7/20/07, Maung A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am new to ruby. I’ve googled for ci\_reporter user guide, but i found > > little helpful results. Could anyone have a clue where i can get support > > for reporter? My real question is how to get xml output ruby. Earlier, > > someone on the forum point me out that ci\_reporter has this > > functionality. ci\_reporter has method called to\_xml, but I don’t really > > know how to use it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Re-reading your question, it sounds like you want a general to\_xml > method > for Ruby objects. ci\_reporter does not do this, it’s meant to be used > with > your unit tests to generate xml reports (again see doco link). Perhaps > you > want to look at the xml serialization code in Rails, which requires you > to > use either simple hashes and arrays, or ActiveRecord. > > [http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/Array/Conversions.html#M000375](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/Array/Conversions.html#M000375) > [http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/Hash/Conversions.html#M000361](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/Hash/Conversions.html#M000361) > [http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/XmlSerialization.html#M000910](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/XmlSerialization.html#M000910) > > /Nick ---
**Author:** ![maung](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@maung](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/maung)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ci-reporter-user-guide/109999/5 "2007-07-27T23:01:51Z")
I have the exact same issue… 1. Ruby 1.8.2-15, Watir-1.5.1192, ci\_reporter 1.3.3 2. My tests are based on Watir::TestCase 3. I am able to run a simple test and generate XML output How does one generate a stylesheet to display an HTML report? \ require ‘watir’ require ‘watir/testcase’ require ‘ci/reporter/rake/test\_unit\_loader’ require ‘test/unit/ui/console/testrunner’ class TC\_MyTests \< Watir::TestCase def test\_mytest1 assert(true, “Test passed”) end def test\_mytest2 assert(false, “Test failed”) end end \ Test failed. \ is not true. (Test::Unit::AssertionFailedError) tc1.rb:12:in `test\_mytest2' Maung A. wrote: > Hi Nick, > > Thanks for your response. I am very new to ruby, so please bear with me. > I am using Ruby, Watir and Test/unit, not Ruby on rails. > My first question will be if i can use ci\_reporter with the tools i > mentioned above. I found out that I need to use ci\_reporter with Rake. > > What I am trying to achieve is that test login a website and check if > successful. I used test/unit assert to validate the result. I need to > get the output from running ruby as XML file so that I can use in > cruisecontrol application. But I don’t know how to use to\_xml method in > my rake file or ruby. > > This is another question. Since I use test/unit, I put the following > line in my rake file: > require ‘rubygems’ > gem ‘ci\_reporter’ > require ‘ci/reporter/rake/test\_unit’ # use this if you’re using > Test::Unit > according to the documentation. When try to run it, I got this error > message: > c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ci\_reporter-1.3.3/lib/ci/reporter/rake/test\_unit.rb:5: > undefined method `namespace' for main:Object (NoMethodError) from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem\_original\_require’ > from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in > `require’ > from Rakefile.rb:3 > I don’t really know what is causing it. > > Any help would be very appreciated. > > Thanks, > maung > > Nick S. wrote: > > > On 7/20/07, Maung A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I am new to ruby. I’ve googled for ci\_reporter user guide, but i found > > > little helpful results. Could anyone have a clue where i can get support > > > for reporter? My real question is how to get xml output ruby. Earlier, > > > someone on the forum point me out that ci\_reporter has this > > > functionality. ci\_reporter has method called to\_xml, but I don’t really > > > know how to use it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Re-reading your question, it sounds like you want a general to\_xml > > method > > for Ruby objects. ci\_reporter does not do this, it’s meant to be used > > with > > your unit tests to generate xml reports (again see doco link). Perhaps > > you > > want to look at the xml serialization code in Rails, which requires you > > to > > use either simple hashes and arrays, or ActiveRecord. > > > > [http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/Array/Conversions.html#M000375](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/Array/Conversions.html#M000375) > > [http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/Hash/Conversions.html#M000361](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/Hash/Conversions.html#M000361) > > [http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/XmlSerialization.html#M000910](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/XmlSerialization.html#M000910) > > > > /Nick