Test/Lint only what matters

Test/Lint only what matters

I mean, every thing matters. But, that’s why we have CI, when you’re working a very large project usually is very hard to run all the tests or lint all the files of the project locally.

But would be nice to run tests/lint only for the files I changed/created on your feature branch, right?! Right!?

What files did I change in my feature branch?

I just recently learned that it’s quite easy to check what files you changed in your feature branch with git diff --name-only master. Having this power, now you can easily chain that to your linter or testing tool, like:

git diff --name-only master | grep '.rb' | xargs bundle exec rubocop

git diff --name-only master | grep '_spec.rb' | xargs bundle exec rspec

That’s it. That’s the post.

It’s very simple, but on the other hand very helpful on large projects. I created aliases for these examples and my development workflow is faster now. I hope it help you as well.