Test errors on rake project (gem)

I’m not sure this is meaningful or if it makes any sense, but just for
curiosity I tried to execute rake tests against the rake gem itself
and I got a few errors (to be precise 3 failures and 5 errors in
total).

First of all, my ruby version:

C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rake-0.7.1>ruby -v
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32]

And this is the result of executing the tests:

C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rake-0.7.1>rake --trace
(in C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1)
** Invoke default (first_time)
** Invoke test_all (first_time)
** Invoke testdata (first_time)
** Execute testdata
mkdir -p testdata
** Execute test_all
C:/ruby/bin/ruby -w -Ilib “C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/
lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb” “test/test_clean.rb”
“test/test_definitions.rb” “test/test_earlytime.rb” “test/
test_filelist.rb” “test/test_fileutils.rb” “test/test_file_cre
ation_task.rb” “test/test_file_task.rb” “test/test_ftp.rb” “test/
test_makefile_loader.rb” “test/test_multitask.rb” “test
/test_namespace.rb” “test/test_package_task.rb” “test/test_pathmap.rb”
“test/test_rake.rb” “test/test_require.rb” “test/
test_rules.rb” “test/test_tasks.rb” “test/test_task_manager.rb” “test/
test_test_task.rb” “test/contrib/testsys.rb” “test
/functional.rb”
UNABLE TO RUN FUNCTIONAL TESTS
No Session Found
Loaded suite C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake/
rake_test_loader
Started
…E.E…-e:
1:in `exit’: no implicit conversion from nil to in
teger (TypeError)
from -e:1
FE.EF…FE…
Finished in 11.265 seconds.

  1. Error:
    test_create(TestEarlyTime):
    ArgumentError: argument out of range
    ./test/test_earlytime.rb:9:in mktime' ./test/test_earlytime.rb:9:intest_create’

  2. Error:
    test_original_time_compare_is_not_messed_up(TestEarlyTime):
    ArgumentError: argument out of range
    ./test/test_earlytime.rb:24:in mktime' ./test/test_earlytime.rb:24:intest_original_time_compare_is_not_messed_up’

  3. Failure:
    test_ruby(TestFileUtils)
    [./test/test_fileutils.rb:116:in test_ruby' ./lib/rake.rb:729:insh’
    ./lib/rake.rb:812:in sh' ./lib/rake.rb:807:insh’
    ./lib/rake.rb:747:in ruby' ./lib/rake.rb:812:inruby’
    ./lib/rake.rb:807:in ruby' ./test/test_fileutils.rb:114:intest_ruby’
    ./lib/rake.rb:831:in verbose' ./test/test_fileutils.rb:110:intest_ruby’]:
    <123> expected but was
    <1>.

  4. Error:
    test_sh(TestFileUtils):
    RuntimeError: Command failed with status (1): [test/shellcommand.rb]
    ./lib/rake.rb:722:in sh' ./lib/rake.rb:729:insh’
    ./lib/rake.rb:812:in sh' ./lib/rake.rb:807:insh’
    ./test/test_fileutils.rb:71:in test_sh' ./lib/rake.rb:831:inverbose’
    ./test/test_fileutils.rb:71:in `test_sh’

  5. Error:
    test_sh_multiple_arguments(TestFileUtils):
    RuntimeError: Command failed with status (1): [test $RAKE_TEST_SH =
    someval]
    ./lib/rake.rb:722:in sh' ./lib/rake.rb:729:insh’
    ./lib/rake.rb:812:in sh' ./lib/rake.rb:807:insh’
    ./test/test_fileutils.rb:78:in test_sh_multiple_arguments' ./lib/rake.rb:831:inverbose’
    ./test/test_fileutils.rb:78:in `test_sh_multiple_arguments’

  6. Failure:
    test_sh_special_handling(TestFileUtils)
    [./test/test_fileutils.rb:96:in test_sh_special_handling' ./lib/rake.rb:729:insh’
    ./lib/rake.rb:812:in sh' ./lib/rake.rb:807:insh’
    ./test/test_fileutils.rb:95:in test_sh_special_handling' ./lib/rake.rb:831:inverbose’
    ./test/test_fileutils.rb:94:in `test_sh_special_handling’]:
    is not true.

  7. Failure:
    test_each_dir_parent(TestRake) [./test/test_rake.rb:11]:
    <[“c:/a/b”, “c:/a”, “c:”]> expected but was
    <[“c:/a/b”, “c:/a”, “c:/”]>.

  8. Error:
    test_can_load_rake_library(TestRequire):
    LoadError: Can’t find test2
    ./lib/rake.rb:1813:in rake_require' ./test/test_require.rb:11:intest_can_load_rake_library’

166 tests, 515 assertions, 3 failures, 5 errors
rake aborted!
Command failed with status (1): [C:/ruby/bin/ruby -w -Ilib "C:/ruby/
lib/rub…]
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:722:in sh' C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:729:insh’
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:812:in sh' C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:807:insh’
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:747:in ruby' C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:812:inruby’
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:807:in ruby' C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake/testtask.rb:117:indefine’
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:831:in verbose' C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake/testtask.rb:102:indefine’
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:387:in execute' C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:387:inexecute’
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:357:in invoke' C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/thread.rb:135:insynchronize’
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:350:in invoke' C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:364:ininvoke_prerequisites’
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:999:in each' C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:363:ininvoke_prerequisites’
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:356:in invoke' C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/thread.rb:135:insynchronize’
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:350:in invoke' C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:1906:inrun’
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/lib/rake.rb:1906:in `run’
C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.1/bin/rake:7
C:/ruby/bin/rake.bat:25

Ciao
Giuliano