Forum: RSpec rake spec loads development environment

Hi,

  I am new to rspec and started implementing it on my project yesterday.
I have followed the instructions and installed rspec gem and rspec
plugin into my project. I created couple of sample stories and tried
running the specs using spec command which worked fine, but when I
started using rake spec command it is loading development environment
instead of test environment. I tried to putting some STDOUT's in
spec_helper.rb but it seems that this file is never interpreted. Am I
missing something? Please help, Thanks in advance.

-SatishG

On Aug 19, 2008, at 1:05 PM, Satish Gunnu <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  I am new to rspec and started implementing it on my project  
> yesterday.
> I have followed the instructions

What instructions?

> and installed rspec gem and rspec
> plugin into my project. I created couple of sample stories and tried
> running the specs using spec command which worked fine, but when I
> started using rake spec command it is loading development environment
> instead of test environment. I tried to putting some STDOUT's in
> spec_helper.rb but it seems that this file is never interpreted.

Are you including it from your spec files?

Hi David,

  Most of my knowledge came from peepcode rspec screencast and the 
following link. 
http://rspec.rubyforge.org/documentation/rails/install.html

Here are the steps I have done to get going.

 1) Installed rspec gem
 2) Installed rspec plugin in my project
 3) created a test_spec.rb file which have sample stories
 4) ruby script/generate rspec
 5) rake spec

  I have one initializer file for oracle_driver in initializers 
directory which is set to not load in test environment. when I run rake 
spec command this initializer is invoked and I see that the environment 
is set to development but not test.

To answer your second questions, I am not including it from my spec 
files.

BTW I am using rpsec 1.1.4 and rails 2.1.0. Sorry for not being 
elaborate in my prev post.

Thanks,
SatishG.





David Chelimsky wrote:
> On Aug 19, 2008, at 1:05 PM, Satish Gunnu <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>>  I am new to rspec and started implementing it on my project  
>> yesterday.
>> I have followed the instructions
> 
> What instructions?
> 
>> and installed rspec gem and rspec
>> plugin into my project. I created couple of sample stories and tried
>> running the specs using spec command which worked fine, but when I
>> started using rake spec command it is loading development environment
>> instead of test environment. I tried to putting some STDOUT's in
>> spec_helper.rb but it seems that this file is never interpreted.
> 
> Are you including it from your spec files?

On Aug 19, 2008, at 2:05 PM, Satish Gunnu wrote:

> missing something? Please help, Thanks in advance.
>
> -SatishG
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iirc, it looks at the development environment to prepare the db
schema, but still runs the specs in test. Is that what you're seeing?

Yes I think that is what's happening in my case. is this how it is 
supposed to work? or can we have rspec ignore the step to look at 
development environment. thanks so much for all your help.


> iirc, it looks at the development environment to prepare the db
> schema, but still runs the specs in test. Is that what you're seeing?

On Aug 19, 2008, at 4:32 PM, Satish Gunnu wrote:

> Yes I think that is what's happening in my case. is this how it is
> supposed to work? or can we have rspec ignore the step to look at
> development environment. thanks so much for all your help.

you'll notice that vendor/plugins/rspec-rails/rspec.rake contains the
line

spec_prereq = File.exist?(File.join(RAILS_ROOT, 'config',
'database.yml')) ? "db:test:prepare" : :noop

which you could change or comment out

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Jonathan Linowes
<jonathan@parkerhill.com>wrote:

>
> you'll notice that vendor/plugins/rspec-rails/rspec.rake contains the line
>
> spec_prereq = File.exist?(File.join(RAILS_ROOT, 'config', 'database.yml'))
> ? "db:test:prepare" : :noop
>
> which you could change or comment out


You'd have to remember to run your migrations against the test db as 
well as
the dev db.

///ark

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Satish Gunnu <lists@ruby-forum.com> 
wrote:
>  3) created a test_spec.rb file which have sample stories
>  4) ruby script/generate rspec
>  5) rake spec
>
>  I have one initializer file for oracle_driver in initializers
> directory which is set to not load in test environment. when I run rake
> spec command this initializer is invoked and I see that the environment
> is set to development but not test.
>
> To answer your second questions, I am not including it from my spec
> files.

I'd recommend doing so if you want the spec_helper.rb file to be
loaded. It will set the environment for you correctly.

>
> http://rspec.rubyforge.org/documentation/rails/install.html
>


I sure wish someone would take that page down - it's caused me more than 
my
share of grief.

///ark

Awesome. Thanks guys. Appreciate your help.


Mark Wilden wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Jonathan Linowes
> <jonathan@parkerhill.com>wrote:
> 
>>
>> you'll notice that vendor/plugins/rspec-rails/rspec.rake contains the line
>>
>> spec_prereq = File.exist?(File.join(RAILS_ROOT, 'config', 'database.yml'))
>> ? "db:test:prepare" : :noop
>>
>> which you could change or comment out
> 
> 
> You'd have to remember to run your migrations against the test db as 
> well as
> the dev db.
> 
> ///ark

Done

On Aug 19, 2008, at 5:08 PM, Jonathan Linowes wrote:

> spec_prereq = File.exist?(File.join(RAILS_ROOT, 'config',  
> 'database.yml')) ? "db:test:prepare" : :noop
>
> which you could change or comment out

note, I ran into this wanting to run through my specs on my
production server, which doesnt have a development environment but
does have a production one. So instead I run (via a cap  deploy:spec
task i wrote)

     rake spec RAILS_ENV=production

that way the db:test:prepare uses the production db rather than the
development one

I know this thread is long dead, but I'm finding that I have the same 
problem. 'rake spec:modles' loads the development environment and 
clobbers my development database. I have to run set RAILS_ENV=test in 
order for the tests to run correctly.

Commenting out that rake task line does not solve the problem. WHat's 
going on? Do I really have to remember to always set the environment to 
test? Shouldn't that be the default?

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Matthew Isleb <lists@ruby-forum.com> 
wrote:
> I know this thread is long dead, but I'm finding that I have the same
> problem. 'rake spec:modles' loads the development environment and
> clobbers my development database. I have to run set RAILS_ENV=test in
> order for the tests to run correctly.
>
> Commenting out that rake task line does not solve the problem.

What rake task line in what file?

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Jonathan Linowes
<jonathan@parkerhill.com>wrote:

>
>    rake spec RAILS_ENV=production
>
> that way the db:test:prepare uses the production db rather than the
> development one


I know this thread is long dead but ... you must be joking.

///ark

Mark Wilden wrote in post #816031:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Jonathan Linowes
> <jonathan@parkerhill.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>    rake spec RAILS_ENV=production
>>
>> that way the db:test:prepare uses the production db rather than the
>> development one
>
>
> I know this thread is long dead but ... you must be joking.
>
> ///ark

I went though same experience today with my recently setup ruby 1.9, 
rails 3.0, and rspec 2. "$ rake spec" loaded development environment, 
hitting development db and pumping logs at log/development.log. This 
caused lot of confusion in my testing (As I run spec within RubyMine at 
the same time).

I found that there is "RAILS_ENV=development" in my bash environment. 
Once I remove that, everything works as expected. rspec loads test 
environment, test db, and logging at log/test.log.

One thing I noticed is when I have RAILS_ENV=development, even if I 
tried "$ rake spec RAILS_ENV=test", it actually hit development 
environment. I thought argument override shell env setting. Am I wrong 
or is it rspec issue?

This thread has been dead for awhile, but I'm having the same issue.  I 
don't have a bash variable set.  I'm also having this issue with 
Cucumber.  It always runs in development mode.

If I put "p Rails.env" in spec_helper.rb:8 (after spec_helper already 
declares ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= "test") and run "rake spec" it outputs 
"development" every time.  If I run "spec spec/*/**" it outputs "test" 
like it should.

My setup:

Rails 2.3.9
Rake 0.8.7
Bundler 1.0.10
Rspec-rails 1.3.3
Rspec 1.3.1