Gem xmlsimple behaves unexplectedly after adding aws-s3 gem

Rails
1

Hi all,
after spending a long night trying to track down some unexpected spec
failures in my app I came to the conclusion that the reason was aws-s3
gem, which probably monkey patches XmlSimple class and changes its
behaviour so that xml_in method won’t honor passed options anymore.
Here is a simple spec file to prove it… uncomment line 4 to make it
fail.

require ‘rubygems’
require ‘spec’
require ‘xmlsimple’

require ‘aws/s3’

module XmlSimpleHelper
def xml_sample
%q(

Ciao
Hello

)
end
end

describe XmlSimple do
include XmlSimpleHelper
it ‘should remove root tag by default’ do
expected = {‘greeting’ => [“Ciao”, “Hello”]}
XmlSimple.xml_in(xml_sample).should == expected
end

it ‘should keep root tag when asked’ do
options = {‘KeepRoot’ => true}
expected = {‘greetings’ => [{‘greeting’ => [“Ciao”, “Hello”]}]}
XmlSimple.xml_in(xml_sample, options).should == expected
end

it ‘should force to array when asked’ do
options = {‘ForceArray’ => true}
expected = {‘greeting’ => [“Ciao”, “Hello”]}
XmlSimple.xml_in(xml_sample, options).should == expected
end
end

All gems were freshly updated… I haven’l looked at aws-s3 code yet,
I will do later, in the meanwhile I’d like to know other people
opinion, if this is some kind of bug in the gem or what…

TIA

Andrea L.

2

Again, the aws-s3 gem keeps biting my hand:

require ‘rubygems’
require ‘spec’
require ‘xmlsimple’
require ‘aws/s3’ # remove to test pass

def xml
%q(10.99)
end

def expected
{“content”=>“10.99”, “currency”=>“USD”}
end

describe XmlSimple do
it ‘should return expected content’ do
data = XmlSimple.xml_in(xml, ‘keeproot’ => false)
data.should == expected
end
end