Ruby Forum RSpec > rake spec:rcov failing

Trying to run the 'spec:rcov' task and failing with error below.

I saw a post from last year with a different REXML error but it was a 
FixNum
issue.

Any help appreciated.

S

OS X
Ruby 1.8.6
Rails 2.02
RSpec-1.1.3 (build 20080131122909)
REXML 3.1.6

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876 examples, 0 failures, 87 pending
/opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rexml/text.rb:155:in `check': Illegal
character '<' in raw string " (RuntimeError)
// <![CDATA[
  function toggleCode( id ) {
    if ( document.getElementById )
      elem = document.getElementById( id );
    else if ( document.all )
      elem = eval( "document.all." + id );
    else
      return false;

    elemStyle = elem.style;

    if ( elemStyle.display != "block" ) {
      elemStyle.display = "block"
    } else {
      elemStyle.display = "none"
    }

    return true;
  }

  // Make cross-references hidden by default
  document.writeln( "<style type=\"text/css\">span.cross-ref { display: 
none
}</style>" )
  // ]]>
"       from /opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rexml/text.rb:153:in 
`each'
        from /opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rexml/text.rb:153:in 
`check'
        from /opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rexml/text.rb:125:in
`parent='
        from /opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rexml/parent.rb:19:in 
`<<'
        from (eval):161:in `<<'
        from (eval):112:in `create'
        from (eval):372:in `h_'
        from
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rcov-0.8.0.2/lib/rcov/report.rb:746:in
`create_index'
         ... 28 levels...
        from
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rcov-0.8.0.2/lib/rcov.rb:628:in
`dump_coverage_info'
        from
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rcov-0.8.0.2/lib/rcov.rb:628:in `each'
        from
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rcov-0.8.0.2/lib/rcov.rb:628:in
`dump_coverage_info'
        from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rcov-0.8.0.2/bin/rcov:405
$

Steve,

Did you have any luck with this?  I ran into this problem today, with
Rcov 0.8.1.2.0, RSpec 1.1.3, and REXML 3.1.7.3.

-Alf

I havne't take a look yet, but a couple of points:

- I was mistaken in my OP; I'm running REXML 3.1.7.3
- I saw a different post on a related topic that seemed to blame REXML

I'd been meaning to go back to an earlier version of REXML and see if 
that
fixed it since I had rcov working on this project a while back and I did
upgrade my REXML version at some point.

Wow, ok...I have had other trouble with REXML 3.1.7.3 being too 
finicky...a few weeks back I found it enforcing declaration of XML 
namespaces even though it doesn't seem to be actually doing anything 
with namespaces except refusing to parse if they weren't properly 
declared.

So, I did suspect the REXML version until I saw you were running 3.1.6. 
:-)

I downgraded to 3.1.7 and it's working now!  Don't know if it's REXML 
being buggy or just finicky, but I'm glad to have something working. 
:-)

Thanks,

-Alf