Growl-style notifications when grunt watch fails (new feature)

[gruntjs]

Growl-style notifications when grunt watch fails (new feature)

[cowboy]

Does this lib fail gracefully if the user doesn't have growl installed on all supported OSes?

[rwaldron]

No idea, but I'll look into it and we can chat on Monday or whatever

[Jontyy]

Is there anyway we can add a custom hook for when any tasks fail?

[cowboy]

@Jontyy how would you use that? Can you give me an example?

[Jontyy]

@cowboy Maybe something like

var exec = require('child_process').exec;

config.init({/*...*/});
//whatever the failure listener is
grunt.on('task.fail',function(task){
   var cmd = 'notify-send "Grunt - Task failed" '+task; //I'm on ubuntu
   exec(cmd);
});

I'm at work so not got much time to comment but something along them lines, obviously the api could be more consistent with what grunt provides already but I imagine it will be trivial for me to make my own failure listener which would work on OS X (at work) and Ubuntu (at home)

Edit:

maybe it would be better on the task object.

task.fail(function(task){/*...*/});

[cowboy]

@Jontyy I've created a more general issue for this at #70.

[johnkpaul]

I don't know where this stands anymore, but I started working on this today here. My immediate need is just to be able to see the grunt watch output in growl, so I don't have to switch terminals in order to read them.

Currently, if you add the --growl option to grunt, all log messages are pushed to grunt using the node-growl dependency. I believe that it fails silently if growl is not available on the current platform. All it does is delegate to require('child_process').exec which doesn't do anything on failed shell commands.

[ggoforth]

This would be awesome. Is a pull request in the near future?

[johnkpaul]

@ggoforth I have actually finished it, and it works for me, but I don't know if it would be as useful for others. Currently, it takes all output that would go to stdout, and pushes that to growl. Once issue #70 is completed, then this exact issue would be trivial in my code, but I haven't yet attempted to only publish the error notifications to growl.

[vladikoff]

You guys should checkout Grunt Growl: https://github.com/alextucker/grunt-growl
Haven't tried it with task failures yet.

[FGRibreau]

Here is a quick work around. It uses grunt.utils.hooker and node-growl.

[cowboy]

Once events have been added per #328, you'll be able to implement this entirely on your end using events... so feel free to participate in that discussion!