tests: Fixed issue where tests stopped in the middle

When running the gunicorn server, the terminal did not start the test scripts
and waited for the process to complete. So I moved the server process to background
and killed it after the tests ran. Should work now in Travis-CI

Will have to look into services like "supervisor" as the current solution is
just a hack.

.gitignore

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # ignore the virtualenv folder
 test_emails/
 venv
+nohup.out
 # logfiles/ ## commenting it out as it caused an error when running on heroku
 
 # Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files

.travis.yml

@@ -5,11 +5,14 @@ python:
 
 before_script:
   - "pip install -r requirements.txt"
-  - "make run"  # run gunicorn server
+  - "make run-background"  # run gunicorn server
   - sleep 5  # # give Web server some time to bind to sockets, etc
 
 script: make test-api
 
+after_script:
+  - "pkill gunicorn"
+
 notifications:
   webhooks:
     on_success: change  # options: [always|never|change] default: always

Makefile

@@ -11,13 +11,16 @@ clean:
 	-find . -name '*.pyc' -delete
 	-find . -name '__pycache__' -delete
 
-run: clean
+run-background: clean
 	# to be used when testing locally
+	nohup gunicorn --pythonpath plino app:app &
+
+run: clean
 	gunicorn --pythonpath plino app:app
 
-test-api: clean
+test-api: clean run-background
 	# for testing api responses (test_plino_app_api_response.py)
-	python tests/test_plino_app_api_response.py
+	nosetests
 
 deploy: clean
 	# deploys app to heroku as well pushes the latest commits to the github

requirements.txt

@@ -18,5 +18,6 @@ Flask-Cache==0.13.1
 # production server
 gunicorn==19.4.5
 
-# Additional requirements
+# testing requirements
 requests == 2.10.0
+nose==1.3.7