# Autotest FAIL

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/autotest-fail/169523>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 4, 2009, 8:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/autotest-fail/169523 "2009-06-04T20:38:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![dkanders](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7bcc69/32.png) [@dkanders](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dkanders)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 8:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/autotest-fail/169523/1 "2009-06-04T20:38:27Z")

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Hi All,

I recently did a gem cleanup and seem to be having trouble with  
autotest… any ideas???

rake runs fine, but autotest doesn’t run any of my tests:

################LOOK WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I RUN RAKE \_ EVERYTHING IS  
FINE##############  
$ rake test  
(in /Users/me/Projects/myproject/trunk)  
/usr/local/bin/ruby -I"/Users/me/Projects/myproject/trunk/lib"  
-I"/Users/me/Projects/myproject/trunk/test"  
“/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake/rake\_test\_loader.rb”  
“test/unit/helpers/send\_to\_a\_friend\_helper\_test.rb”  
“test/unit/helpers/subscriptions\_helper\_test.rb”  
“test/unit/helpers/twitter\_helper\_test.rb”  
“test/unit/helpers/votes\_helper\_test.rb”  
“test/unit/notification\_mailer\_test.rb” “test/unit/subscription\_test.rb”  
“test/unit/vote\_test.rb”  
Loaded suite  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.4/lib/rake/rake\_test\_loader  
Started  
…  
Finished in 0.496899 seconds.

7 tests, 5 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors

################NOW, I"LL RUN AUTOTEST AND NO TESTS ARE  
RUN##############  
$ autotest  
/usr/local/bin/ruby -I.:lib:test -rubygems -e “%w[test/unit  
test/test\_helper.rb].each { |f| require f }” | unit\_diff -u  
Loaded suite -e  
Started

Finished in 0.001634 seconds.

0 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors

Gems installed:

$ gem list

\*\*\* LOCAL GEMS \*\*\*

actionmailer (2.3.2)  
actionpack (2.3.2, 1.13.3)  
actionpack-imagemagick (0.4)  
actionwebservice (1.2.3)  
activerecord (2.3.2)  
activeresource (2.3.2)  
activesupport (2.3.2, 2.3.1, 1.4.2)  
aws-s3 (0.5.1)  
builder (2.1.2)  
capistrano (2.5.5)  
cgi\_multipart\_eof\_fix (2.5.0)  
cheat (1.2.1)  
chronic (0.2.3)  
cloudkit (0.9.0)  
columnize (0.2)  
crack (0.1.2)  
crafterm-sprinkle (0.2.0)  
cucumber (0.3.9)  
daemons (1.0.10)  
diff-lcs (1.1.2)  
eventmachine (0.12.2)  
eycap (0.3.11)  
fastercsv (1.4.0)  
fastthread (1.0.1)  
gem\_plugin (0.2.3)  
grit (1.0.0)  
gruff (0.2.8)  
has\_many\_polymorphs (2.12)  
heroku (0.4.1)  
highline (1.5.0)  
hoe (1.8.2)  
hpricot (0.6.164)  
httparty (0.4.3)  
image\_science (1.1.3)  
jdpace-weatherman (0.1.2)  
json (1.1.3)  
linecache (0.43)  
macaddr (1.0.0)  
mash (0.0.3)  
mdalessio-dryopteris (0.1.0)  
mechanize (0.9.0)  
mime-types (1.15)  
mislav-will\_paginate (2.3.6)  
mocha (0.9.5)  
mojombo-grit (0.9.4)  
money (1.7.1)  
mongrel (1.1.5)  
mysql (2.7)  
needle (1.3.0)  
net-scp (1.0.1)  
net-sftp (2.0.1)  
net-ssh (2.0.11)  
net-ssh-gateway (1.0.0)  
nifty-generators (0.2.3)  
nokogiri (1.2.3)  
oauth (0.3.4)  
open4 (0.9.6)  
packet (0.1.15)  
passenger (2.0.3)  
pauldix-feedzirra (0.0.3)  
pauldix-sax-machine (0.0.11)  
Platform (0.4.0)  
polyglot (0.2.5)  
prawn (0.2.3)  
rack (0.9.1)  
rack-config (0.9.0)  
rails (2.3.2, 2.3.1)  
railsmachine (1.0.5)  
rake (0.8.4)  
rcov (0.8.0.2)  
RedCloth (4.1.9)  
redgreen (1.2.2)  
rest-client (0.9.2)  
rmagick (1.15.4)  
rspec (1.1.12)  
ruby-debug (0.10.2)  
ruby-debug-base (0.10.2)  
ruby-hmac (0.3.2)  
ruby-openid (2.1.2)  
rubyforge (1.0.3)  
rubygems-update (1.3.3)  
RubyInline (3.8.1)  
rubyist-aasm (2.0.5)  
scrubyt (0.4.06)  
sequel (2.8.0, 2.6.0)  
sinatra (0.3.2)  
sources (0.0.1)  
spree (0.2.0)  
sqlite3-ruby (1.2.4)  
stephencelis-haddock (0.0.1)  
sys-uname (0.8.3)  
taf2-curb (0.2.8.0)  
term-ansicolor (1.0.3)  
termios (0.9.4)  
thin (1.0.0)  
treetop (1.2.5)  
twitter (0.6.11)  
utility\_belt (1.1.0)  
uuid (2.0.1)  
wirble (0.1.2)  
xml-simple (1.0.11)  
yahoo-weather (1.0.0)  
ZenTest (4.1.1)

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**Author:** ![dkanders](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7bcc69/32.png) [@dkanders](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dkanders)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/autotest-fail/169523/2 "2009-06-04T22:42:38Z")

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Oh, oh oh, I got it working - had to install autotest-rails (gem install  
autotest-rails)

man, rough day today. bunch of gems got wiped out, all better now…