Autotest with Growl not working

Rails
1

Hi I’m new and using Ruby on Rails 3 but when I run $ autotest nothing
happens (I have growl installed). If I run $ rspec spec then I get the
‘Finished in 0.07253 seconds seconds 2 example, 0 failures’ message

I have the following gems installed for autotest (checked via $ gem
list):

autotest (4.3.2)
autotest-fsevent (0.2.4, 0.2.2)
autotest-growl (0.2.9, 0.2.4)
autotest-rails-pure (4.1.0)

However none of them appear when I use $ bundle show. I read that that
was because they are not in my Gemfile for my project, although I do
have the following in my .autotest file in my home directory:

require ‘autotest/growl’
require ‘autotest/fsevent’

So I added the lines under my ‘group :test do’ in my Gemfile

gem ‘autotest-fsevent’ ‘0.2.4’
gem ‘autotest-growl’ ‘0.2.9’

and ran $ bundle check and get the following error:

Your Gemfile’s dependencies could not be satisfied
Install missing gems with bundle install

which I then try using $ bundle install

Fetching source index for http://rubygems.org/
Could not find gem ‘autotest-growl0.2.9 (>= 0, runtime)’ in any of the
gem sources.

And now I am totally stuck. Any help much appreciated!!

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On 21 February 2011 23:38, Murph2m [email protected] wrote:

autotest-rails-pure (4.1.0)

gem ‘autotest-fsevent’ ‘0.2.4’
gem ‘autotest-growl’ ‘0.2.9’

That should be
gem ‘autotest-fsevent’, ‘0.2.4’
gem ‘autotest-growl’, ‘0.2.9’
with commas.

You can see this if you look at your gemfile it will have something like
gem ‘rails’, ‘3.0.4’
near the top.

Colin

3

Thanks Colin! sorry for the stupid error!

I am now getting something new:

h-3.2$ bundle exec autotest
/Users/mattmurphy/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/
bundler-1.0.0/lib/bundler/shared_helpers.rb:100:in block in cripple_rubygems': autotest is not part of the bundle. Add it to Gemfile. (Gem::LoadError) from /Users/mattmurphy/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/bin/ autotest:18:in’

From trying to read around maybe something to do with the $LOAD_PATH
(what is that) or maybe the Gemfile.lock?

Thanks in advance!

4

Ok I’ve added 'gem ‘autotest’, ‘4.3.2’ & gem ‘autotest-rails-pure’,
‘4.1.0’ to the Gemfile for this project and I no longer get the error
and I get the following message:

-bash-3.2$ bundle exec autotest
loading autotest/rails_rspec2
style: RailsRspec2

But nothing happens. Also in my first project I don’t remember needing
to add any of the autotest gems to the Gemfile for my local project.
Are they not setup via some sort of global gemfile?

Sorry a bit out of my depth here - I’m finding it quite tricky as a
newbie!

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As further investigation I have looked into the shared_helper.rb file
in the path of the error and found the code that appears to be testing
for it:

spec = specs.find { |s| s.name == dep.name }

if spec.nil?
e = Gem::LoadError.new “#{dep.name} is not part of the
bundle. Add it to Gemfile.”
e.name = dep.name
e.version_requirement = dep.requirement
raise e

Tried googling ‘specs.find’ but no luck yet