# Confused - trying to run the specs **URL:** \ **Category:** IronRuby\ **Created:** [March 24, 2009, 11:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/confused-trying-to-run-the-specs/163792 "2009-03-24T23:07:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![thbar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@thbar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thbar)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2009, 11:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/confused-trying-to-run-the-specs/163792/1 "2009-03-24T23:07:04Z")
Hi, I’m having a closer look at the source in order to attempt some work around system and IO popen. I pulled the code, ran dev.bat etc. The build runs fine. Now I’m trying to run the specs and something must be not quite right - or I’m not invoking the right modjo. Maybe some confusion with some existing install on the system, I’m not sure. I’ve tried (U: is my github root): U:\>mspec ci core\kernel\system ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i386-mswin32] Finished in 0.000000 seconds 0 files, 0 examples, 0 expectations, 0 failures, 0 errors also tried: U:\Merlin\External\Languages\IronRuby\mspec\>mspec :core U:/Merlin/External/Languages/IronRuby/mspec/mspec/lib/mspec/commands/mspec.rb:150:in `exec': No such file or directory - U:\Merlin\Main\Test\Scripts\ir.cmd (Errno::ENOENT) from U:/Merlin/External/Languages/IronRuby/mspec/mspec/lib/mspec/commands/mspec.rb:150:in`run’ from U:/Merlin/External/Languages/IronRuby/mspec/mspec/lib/mspec/utils/script.rb:203:in `main’ from U:/Merlin/External/Languages/IronRuby/mspec/mspec/bin/mspec:7 I have no HOME var set. I tried setting it but it doesn’t seem to change anything currently. So any hint will help me go further here (I’ll continue diving in here). Are there some steps I should carry out ? As well, is there an explanation of what “tags” are for ? Are these some way to track the specs that aren’t passing ? cheers, – Thibaut ---
**Author:** ![thbar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@thbar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thbar)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 12:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/confused-trying-to-run-the-specs/163792/2 "2009-03-25T00:29:02Z")
Btw, HOME should be set to %USERPROFILE% (something like c:\Users\janedoe) for those who do not know what the value should look like. From: Shri B. Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 4:09 PM To: ironruby-core Subject: RE: [Ironruby-core] Confused - trying to run the specs This does seem to be an issue with HOME not being set which Adam Khatava was also running into. Can you try setting HOME before running dev.bat? Dev.bat copies default.mspec to the HOME folder allowing the “mspec ci” command to know where to find the tests. So setting HOME after running dev.bat will _not_ work. I have a change for dev.bat to set HOME if it is not set already. If you could confirm that setting HOME before running dev.bat works, then I will know that my change is actually the right fix for your problem. Tags are a way to disable tests. Browsing the ironruby-tags folder will tell you what does not work. See [http://rubyspec.org/wiki/mspec/Mspec-tag](http://rubyspec.org/wiki/mspec/Mspec-tag) for some info. Thanks, Shri From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of Thibaut Barrère Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 2:54 PM To: ironruby-core Subject: [Ironruby-core] Confused - trying to run the specs Hi, I’m having a closer look at the source in order to attempt some work around system and IO popen. I pulled the code, ran dev.bat etc. The build runs fine. Now I’m trying to run the specs and something must be not quite right - or I’m not invoking the right modjo. Maybe some confusion with some existing install on the system, I’m not sure. I’ve tried (U: is my github root): U:\>mspec ci core\kernel\system ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i386-mswin32] Finished in 0.000000 seconds 0 files, 0 examples, 0 expectations, 0 failures, 0 errors also tried: U:\Merlin\External\Languages\IronRuby\mspec\>mspec :core U:/Merlin/External/Languages/IronRuby/mspec/mspec/lib/mspec/commands/mspec.rb:150:in `exec': No such file or directory - U:\Merlin\Main\Test\Scripts\ir.cmd (Errno::ENOENT) from U:/Merlin/External/Languages/IronRuby/mspec/mspec/lib/mspec/commands/mspec.rb:150:in `run’ from U:/Merlin/External/Languages/IronRuby/mspec/mspec/lib/mspec/utils/script.rb:203:in `main’ from U:/Merlin/External/Languages/IronRuby/mspec/mspec/bin/mspec:7 I have no HOME var set. I tried setting it but it doesn’t seem to change anything currently. So any hint will help me go further here (I’ll continue diving in here). Are there some steps I should carry out ? As well, is there an explanation of what “tags” are for ? Are these some way to track the specs that aren’t passing ? cheers, – Thibaut ---
**Author:** ![thbar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@thbar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thbar)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 12:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/confused-trying-to-run-the-specs/163792/3 "2009-03-25T00:46:37Z")
This does seem to be an issue with HOME not being set which Adam Khatava was also running into. Can you try setting HOME before running dev.bat? Dev.bat copies default.mspec to the HOME folder allowing the “mspec ci” command to know where to find the tests. So setting HOME after running dev.bat will _not_ work. I have a change for dev.bat to set HOME if it is not set already. If you could confirm that setting HOME before running dev.bat works, then I will know that my change is actually the right fix for your problem. Tags are a way to disable tests. Browsing the ironruby-tags folder will tell you what does not work. See [http://rubyspec.org/wiki/mspec/Mspec-tag](http://rubyspec.org/wiki/mspec/Mspec-tag) for some info. Thanks, Shri From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of Thibaut Barrère Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 2:54 PM To: ironruby-core Subject: [Ironruby-core] Confused - trying to run the specs Hi, I’m having a closer look at the source in order to attempt some work around system and IO popen. I pulled the code, ran dev.bat etc. The build runs fine. Now I’m trying to run the specs and something must be not quite right - or I’m not invoking the right modjo. Maybe some confusion with some existing install on the system, I’m not sure. I’ve tried (U: is my github root): U:\>mspec ci core\kernel\system ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i386-mswin32] Finished in 0.000000 seconds 0 files, 0 examples, 0 expectations, 0 failures, 0 errors also tried: U:\Merlin\External\Languages\IronRuby\mspec\>mspec :core U:/Merlin/External/Languages/IronRuby/mspec/mspec/lib/mspec/commands/mspec.rb:150:in `exec': No such file or directory - U:\Merlin\Main\Test\Scripts\ir.cmd (Errno::ENOENT) from U:/Merlin/External/Languages/IronRuby/mspec/mspec/lib/mspec/commands/mspec.rb:150:in `run’ from U:/Merlin/External/Languages/IronRuby/mspec/mspec/lib/mspec/utils/script.rb:203:in `main’ from U:/Merlin/External/Languages/IronRuby/mspec/mspec/bin/mspec:7 I have no HOME var set. I tried setting it but it doesn’t seem to change anything currently. So any hint will help me go further here (I’ll continue diving in here). Are there some steps I should carry out ? As well, is there an explanation of what “tags” are for ? Are these some way to track the specs that aren’t passing ? cheers, – Thibaut ---
**Author:** ![thbar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@thbar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thbar)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 11:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/confused-trying-to-run-the-specs/163792/4 "2009-03-25T11:50:27Z")
Hi, I tried that: set HOME=%USERPROFILE% then dev.bat then: U:\Merlin\External\Languages\IronRuby\mspec\>mspec :core U:/Merlin/External/Languages/IronRuby/mspec/mspec/lib/mspec/commands/mspec.rb:150:in `exec': No such file or directory - U:\Merlin\Main\Test\Scripts\ir.cmd (Errno::ENOENT) from U:/Merlin/External/Languages/IronRuby/mspec/mspec/lib/mspec/commands/mspec.rb:150:in `run’ from U:/Merlin/External/Languages/IronRuby/mspec/mspec/lib/mspec/utils/script.rb:203:in `main’ from U:/Merlin/External/Languages/IronRuby/mspec/mspec/bin/mspec:7 U:\Merlin\External\Languages\IronRuby\mspec\>echo %HOME% C:\Documents and Settings\Thibaut Barrère At this point there is a .mspecrc in HOME, and MERLIN\_ROOT is set to U:\Merlin\Main Calling dev.bat first then setting HOME does not change the behaviour. I also removed all known references to some IR version from my PATHs (both user and system), pulled the last ironruby bits, compiled again and retried, but it raises the same error. Maybe it’s a cause: in which folder should I be before I call mspec ci ? No idea what’s going on for the moment, any hint will be most welcome. – Thibaut 2009/3/25 Shri B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)