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I've installed the latest ZenTest gem and the latest rspec and rspec-rails plugin for a site that I'm working on. I can effectively run the specs individually, but when I try to start up autotest, it stalls out after the first line: loading autotest/rails. After this, I don't see the full load path like normal and nothing else happens. It just hangs. Is anyone else experiencing this?
Last edited by elliotlarson (2008-06-24 13:17:20)
I spent some time scrounging around in the Rspec Lighthouse issue tracker and found a solution that works. If I type the following instead of just "autotest" things go as planned:
prompt$ RSPEC=true autotest
Hope this saves someone else some time.
That did save me some time. Thanks!
I also faced the same issue on rspec and rspec-rails 1.2.2. After following this post's advice, it started working.
However, I upgraded to rspec and rspec-rails 1.2.4 and got the "hanging" issue again. I downgraded to 1.2.2, but the issue remains.
I saw an article that 1.2.4 breaks cucumber, but why would it cause the ZenTest issue even after downgrading?
Thanks!
Reference: https://rspec.lighthouseapp.com/project … -rspec-124
Isn't 'autospec' the command to use with newer versions (>1.1.5) of rspec?
Yes people should use autospec instead.
I have tried autospec too. I get the same message as autotest and then it hangs.
loading autotest/rails_rspec
Are there any PATH or other variables I should have?
Let's leave autospec for a minute. What happens if you just run: $ spec spec/models/your_model_spec.rb ?
$ spec spec/models/myresource_spec.rbThe program 'spec' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install librspec-ruby1.8
$ spec spec/models/myresource_spec.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.2.2/lib/spec/autorun.rb:3: undefined method `autorun' for Spec::Runner:Module (NoMethodError)
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:155:in `require'
from /home/matthew/dev/source/tdd/spec/spec_helper.rb:5
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
from ./spec/models/myresource_spec.rb:1
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/spec/runner/example_group_runner.rb:14:in `load'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/spec/runner/example_group_runner.rb:14:in `load_files'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/spec/runner/example_group_runner.rb:13:in `each'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/spec/runner/example_group_runner.rb:13:in `load_files'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/spec/runner/options.rb:85:in `run_examples'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/spec/runner/command_line.rb:19:in `run'
from /usr/bin/spec:4
Last edited by ozymandias (2009-04-16 08:09:58)
Your installation is flawed. Did you install rspec and/or rubygems using debian's package?
I didn't, but I uninstalled and re-installed both rspec and rspec-rails to be sure (now both are version 1.2.4). However, I still get the same error.
Is there anything that I should untar instead of using rubygems? Perhaps rubygems itself is installed incorrectly?
usr/bin/spec
I uninstalled and reinstalled all gems and ruby itself. That seems to have fixed the problem.
However, I'm having trouble with cucumber now 
I'll post that separately.
Thank you for all of your help, Johnson.
I am experiencing a similar thing where autospec will not run. I have the rspec and rspec-rails gems installed, version 1.2.4. And the ZenTest gem, version 4.0.0. They are not installed as a plugin. When I run autospec it displays the loading message and then hangs.
$autospec
loading autotest/rails_rspec
rake spec
spec spec/models/your_model_spec.rb
$ which spec
/usr/local/bin/spec
Last edited by dalboy (2009-04-27 18:44:14)
I just installed rspec and rspec-rails as gems and I am having the same issue. When I run the autospec command I get "loading autotest/rails_rspec" and then hangs.
