# Can't run any tests at all **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [September 17, 2007, 1:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-run-any-tests-at-all/114728 "2007-09-17T13:24:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@dave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dave)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 1:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-run-any-tests-at-all/114728/1 "2007-09-17T13:24:49Z")
Hi all, I’ve been playing around with Rails off and on for a while now, and suddenly I am unable to run any unit tests of any kind under Rails. Or perhaps more specifically, using the Rake task test\_units in a rails project. This applies to any rails project I create. Unit tests, functional tests, etc. I _swear_ I used to be able to run tests, but now I can’t, and cannot for the life of me figure out why. I am on Windows XP, _not_ running under Cygwin, but this has never been a problem before, running Ruby 1.8.4-20 and Rails 1.2.3 to mirror what my host provider has. The RoR website says 1.8.4 is still viable with the latest Rails release, so I assume this is not an incompatibility issue. I am also using Rake 0.7.3 as installed when installing the Rails gem, though 0.7.1 was already installed by default. For this example, I created a barebones Rails app called “example” and tried to test, using these steps: == begin snippet == dir\> rails example … generated project dir\> ruby script\generate model Foo … generated model and foo\_test.rb dir\> rake test\_units (in C:/Dev/projects/rails/example) C:/Dev/languages/ruby/1.8.4-20/bin/ruby -Ilib;test “C:/Dev/languages/ ruby/1.8.4-20/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib /rake/rake\_test\_loader.rb” “this is test in process” C:/Dev/languages/ruby/1.8.4-20/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.7.3/lib/ rake/rake\_test\_loader.rb:5:in `load’: no such file to load – this is test in process (LoadError) from C:/Dev/languages/ruby/1.8.4-20/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ rake-0.7.3/lib/rake/rake\_test\_loader.rb:5 from C:/Dev/languages/ruby/1.8.4-20/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ rake-0.7.3/lib/rake/rake\_test\_loader.rb:5 rake aborted! Command failed with status (1): [C:/Dev/languages/ruby/1.8.4-20/bin/ ruby -I…] (See full trace by running task with --trace) == /end snippet == Here’s the really weird part: I cannot find ANY trace of the phrase “this is test in process” or even “test in process” anywhere in (a) Rails, (b) Ruby, © any Ruby gems. Nor can I find either phrase anywhere via Google in any way related to Rails (or even Ruby) unit testing. If I manually run the default unit test, it works FINE: == begin snippet == test\unit\> ruby foo\_test.rb Loaded suite foo\_test Started . Finished in 0.203 seconds. 1 tests, 1 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors == /end snippet == I tried assuming that “this is test in process” is something that perhaps I wound up adding or modifying in my tinkering, so I did the following: 1. Removed Rails and re-installed. Didn’t work. 2. Completely removed Ruby and Ruby gems, and re-installed both, then re-installed Rails. Didn’t work. I am now completely stumped. Has anyone run into this behavior before, or otherwise know why this is happening and (more importantly) what I can do to get the rake task running again? Thanks in advance, -dave ---
**Author:** ![dave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@dave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dave)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 11:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-run-any-tests-at-all/114728/2 "2007-09-25T23:05:33Z")
I should have clarified, I ran the rake task “test:units” rather than “test\_units”, but EITHER of them results in the same error output shown in the previous post.