# Mspec breaking change **URL:** \ **Category:** IronRuby\ **Created:** [July 7, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mspec-breaking-change/142415 "2008-07-07T19:47:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_LSSIRONRUBY](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/4491bb/32.png) [@John\_LSSIRONRUBY](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_LSSIRONRUBY)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mspec-breaking-change/142415/1 "2008-07-07T19:47:43Z")
The mspec team checked in a change on June 30 that broke all of our RubySpec tests. The -X option has been removed which is the option that lets us tell the specs where the tags directory is. I’ve spent the morning figuring out how to work around this and have something more or less working now modulo a few new bugs that have now shown up. Thanks, -John ---
**Author:** ![John\_LSSIRONRUBY](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/4491bb/32.png) [@John\_LSSIRONRUBY](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_LSSIRONRUBY)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mspec-breaking-change/142415/2 "2008-07-07T19:51:51Z")
Sorry for not dealing with this earlier. I saw this after I committed on Friday. I wanted to get to it this weekend, but I’ve been dealing with a sick kid. I was planning on doing it first thing. As a side note, does it seem right to ask why this wasn’t announced on the Rubyspec list? It’s a pretty big change in my opinion that should have been discussed on the mailing list. JD From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of John L. (IRONRUBY) Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 10:47 AM To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Subject: [Ironruby-core] mspec breaking change The mspec team checked in a change on June 30 that broke all of our RubySpec tests. The -X option has been removed which is the option that lets us tell the specs where the tags directory is. I’ve spent the morning figuring out how to work around this and have something more or less working now modulo a few new bugs that have now shown up. Thanks, -John ---
**Author:** ![John\_LSSIRONRUBY](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/4491bb/32.png) [@John\_LSSIRONRUBY](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_LSSIRONRUBY)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 7:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mspec-breaking-change/142415/3 "2008-07-07T19:55:56Z")
Jim D.: > As a side note, does it seem right to ask why this wasn’t announced on > the Rubyspec list? It’s a pretty big change in my opinion that should > have been discussed on the mailing list. Jim - can you act as our liason to the mspec team? Thanks, -John ---
**Author:** ![John\_LSSIRONRUBY](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/4491bb/32.png) [@John\_LSSIRONRUBY](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_LSSIRONRUBY)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mspec-breaking-change/142415/4 "2008-07-07T21:45:22Z")
Have you commited the stuff to make it run yet? JD ---
**Author:** ![John\_LSSIRONRUBY](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/4491bb/32.png) [@John\_LSSIRONRUBY](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_LSSIRONRUBY)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mspec-breaking-change/142415/5 "2008-07-07T22:25:05Z")
Just a reminder that the rubyspec guys are on IRC, [irc.freenode.net/#rubyspec](http://irc.freenode.net/#rubyspec), might be better to hop in there and ask what’s up before putting it out on a public mailing list. ---
**Author:** ![John\_LSSIRONRUBY](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/4491bb/32.png) [@John\_LSSIRONRUBY](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_LSSIRONRUBY)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mspec-breaking-change/142415/6 "2008-07-07T20:13:30Z")
Sure. I can do it. I just wanted to make sure that I wasn’t over-reacting. JD ---
**Author:** ![John\_LSSIRONRUBY](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/4491bb/32.png) [@John\_LSSIRONRUBY](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_LSSIRONRUBY)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mspec-breaking-change/142415/7 "2008-07-07T22:53:48Z")
Already brought it up on the rubyspec mailing list. I avoid IRC because I get too distracted. JD From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of Michael Letterle Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 1:21 PM To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] mspec breaking change Just a reminder that the rubyspec guys are on IRC, [irc.freenode.net/#rubyspec](http://irc.freenode.net/#rubyspec)[http://irc.freenode.net/#rubyspec](http://irc.freenode.net/#rubyspec), might be better to hop in there and ask what’s up before putting it out on a public mailing list. On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Jim D. \ wrote: Have you commited the stuff to make it run yet? JD