Newbie : how to require to lib from spec under autotest?

Testing RSpec
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Hello all,

I have the RSpec sample in ./rspec_bowling, with…
./rspec_bowling/lib/bowling.rb
./rspec_bowling/spec/spec.opts
./rspec_bowling/spec/bowling_spec.rb

when I autotest, I get this:
$autotest
loading autotest/rspec
/usr/local/bin/ruby -S
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.1.3/bin/spec -O spec/spec.opts
spec/spec_helper.rb spec/bowling_spec.rb
F

ArgumentError in ‘Bowling should score 0 for gutter game’
wrong number of arguments (1 for 0)
[…snip…]
Finished in 0.254 seconds

1 example, 1 failure
/usr/local/bin/ruby -S
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.1.3/bin/spec -O spec/spec.opts
spec/bowling_spec.rb
*./spec/bowling_spec.rb:3:in `require’: no such file to load – bowling
(LoadError)

  •    from ./spec/bowling_spec.rb:3

My RUBYPATH = …/lib:./lib:$PATH, which caused autotest to load the 1st
run
correctly.

Could someone help me understand how to correctly set the search path
for
repeated loading under autotest ?

Thanks!

2

On Apr 5, 2008, at 12:28 AM, “Peter F.”
<[email protected]

wrote:

/usr/local/bin/ruby -S /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.1.3/
bin/spec -O spec/spec.opts spec/spec_helper.rb spec/bowling_spec.rb
F

ArgumentError in ‘Bowling should score 0 for gutter game’
wrong number of arguments (1 for 0)
[…snip…]

This is the error - no path problem. There is a method expecting no
arguments that is being called with one.

HTH,
David

3

On Apr 5, 2008, at 12:38 AM, David C. wrote:

when I autotest, I get this:
[…snip…]

This is the error - no path problem. There is a method expecting no
arguments that is being called with one.

HTH,
David

Sure - that test fails - but why do we see the next result? (see
below) What is rails doing in the background?

Scott

4

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Scott T.
[email protected]
wrote:

./rspec_bowling/spec/spec.opts
1)

Sure - that test fails - but why do we see the next result? (see below)
What is rails doing in the background?

Scott

This is not a rails app, it’s standalone ruby.

And yes, as I highlighted,the interesting bit is the second run where
instead ‘require’ fails.

Thanks in advance for further discussion!

Peter

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On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Peter F. <
[email protected]> wrote:

Hello all,
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.1.3/bin/spec -O spec/spec.opts
arguments that is being called with one.

Hello All,

Thanks for your tips.
In the end, what I needed was a lesson on Ruby Load Path. Pickaxe 2
pp172
“Where Ruby finds its modules” gave me the answer. I needed to set
environment variable RUBYLIB

export RUBYLIB=./lib:…/lib

so that

$ruby -e ‘puts $:’
./lib
…/lib
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i386-cygwin
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-cygwin
.
Now autotest gets the proper require twice in a row, when the spec file
reads :

require ‘bowling’

Hope this helps you, next grasshopper of the RSpec FU!

6

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Peter F.
[email protected] wrote:

“Where Ruby finds its modules” gave me the answer. I needed to set
environment variable RUBYLIB

export RUBYLIB=./lib:…/lib

Instead of setting an environment variable before running the app, you
can modify the load path in your code with:
$:.unshift(*[‘./lib’, ‘…/lib’])

Pat

7

Sweet! That’s a cool command. Thanks for posting!

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Peter F. <