grunt-continue

A grunt plugin to force other tasks to continue after failures

Inspired by and extended from this answer by explunit on StackOverflow

Usage

Install next to your project's Gruntfile.js with:

$ npm install grunt-continue

Here is a simple example gruntfile to show how you might force grunt to continue after failing tests if you have some cleanup that you need to perform afterward

module.exports = function(grunt) {

  // Add the grunt-continue tasks
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-continue');

  // Other tasks and configuration
  ...

  grunt.registerTask('default', [
    'setup',
    'continue:on',
    // All tasks after this point will be run with the force
    // option so that grunt will continue after failures
    'test',
    'continue:off',
    // Tasks after this point will be run without the force
    // option so that grunt exits if they fail
    'cleanup'
  ]);

};

continue:off does not turn off the continuing if --force was specified at the command line.

If continue:on is called muliple times continue:off must be called that many times in order to stop continuing.

If continue:off is called more times than continue:on it will fail.

Checking to see if there were any failures within the block

It is sometimes useful to check if there were any warnings issued by any tasks within continue:on and continue:off. For example, you may run a test within the block and cleanup at the end. In this instance you want the overall build to fail after the cleanup.

To accommodate this add the following task at the end:

module.exports = function(grunt) {

  // Add the grunt-continue tasks
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-continue');

  // Other tasks and configuration
  ...

  grunt.registerTask('default', [
    'setup',
    'continue:on',
    // All tasks after this point will be run with the force
    // option so that grunt will continue after failures
    'test',
    'continue:off',
    // Tasks after this point will be run without the force
    // option so that grunt exits if they fail
    'cleanup',
    'continue:fail-on-warning'
  ]);

};
  
  grun

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using:

$ npm test

Using Vagrant

To use the Vagrantfile you will also need to install the following vagrant plugins

$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-omnibus
$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-berkshelf

License

Copyright © 2013 Peter Halliday
Licensed under the MIT license.