Show desktop notifications for ExUnit runs. Works very well with automatic test runners such as mix-test.watch. (Yes, TDD is awesome!)

Currently notifications on OS X and Linux are supported.

First, add ExUnitNotifier to your mix.exs dependencies:

def deps do
  [
    {:ex_unit_notifier, "~> 1.3", only: :test}
  ]
end

Then, update your dependencies:

$ mix deps.get

Follow installation instruction of terminal-notifier if you need to install a particular version.

Otherwise, install current version via Homebrew:

$ brew install terminal-notifier

Install notify-send:

$ sudo apt install libnotify-bin

Add ExUnitNotifier to your ExUnit configuration in test/test_helper.exs file.

ExUnit.configure formatters: [ExUnit.CLIFormatter, ExUnitNotifier]
ExUnit.start

Now run mix test and you'll see notifications popping up :)

Notifications will be sent from the first available notifier that is deemed available in the order specified below:

• terminal-notifier (ExUnitNotifier.Notifiers.TerminalNotifier)
• notify-send (ExUnitNotifier.Notifiers.NotifySend)
• tmux (ExUnitNotifier.Notifiers.TmuxNotifier)
• Terminal Title if non of the above match (ExUnitNotifier.Notifiers.TerminalTitle)

To force a specific type of notifier to be used, specify the notifier using the following configuration:

config :ex_unit_notifier, notifier: ExUnitNotifier.Notifiers.TerminalNotifier

You can use one of the available notifiers found in lib/ex_unit_notifier/notifiers, or you can write your own.

For notify-send users, it is possible to clear the notifications from notifications center history using the following configuration, defaults to false:

config :ex_unit_notifier, clear_history: true

Copyright (c) 2016 Navin Peiris

Source code is released under the MIT license.