[erlang-questions] Quick question about resetting shells

[Dave Challis]

On 15/04/11 11:18, Vlad Dumitrescu wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:06, Dave Challis <dsc@REDACTED
> <mailto:dsc@REDACTED>> wrote:
>
>     I'm fairly new to erlang, so when I'm working on something, my
>     development cycle usually goes something like:
>
>     1. Write/change code
>     2. Compile using rebar / erlc
>     3. Start a shell using erl -pa ebin
>     4. Paste in commands to test changes
>     5. Quit shell, go to 1
>
>     Steps 3-5 usually take the longest, so I'm wondering, is there any
>     way to stay in a shell, but to reset it to the default state?  I.e.
>     the equivalent of calling l(module_name) to load the latest version
>     of the compiled module, calling f() to clear all variables, and also
>     destroying any ETS tables that might have been created.
>
>     Or is there some better way to test code changes from the shell
>     after .beam files have been recompiled while it's running?
>
>
> I would strongly recommend to start using a test server - eunit or
> common_test are included in OTP. It really does wonders with the length
> of the development cycle :-) Plus it's much more reproducible and all
> the other advantages of having automated tests.

Thanks, I'll take a look into eunit (having read the comparison of the 
two!).  It saves me asking about testing frameworks here too :)


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Dave Challis
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