Bundler, rake spec and Steak

Testing RSpec
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Hello list,

I have noted a few problems when using rake spec. First, it doesn’t seem
to
load the gems from the Gemfile (:test group) I had to add a required for
each gem in this group on the spec_helper.rb file when I tried to run
the
tests vai rake spec, if I use the spec command, it works as expected.

Another thing – I’m using Steak for acceptance testing. Steak puts its
tests under spec/acceptance. Each Steak test uses the
acceptance_helper.rb
helper script. This helper also automatically loads any ruby script from
spec/acceptance/support/*.rb. The issue here is that, when I run rake
spec,
it is running acceptance tests as well, which would not be a problem if
some
support scripts from it set not to use transactional fixtures and
setup
DatabaseCleaner, and messes up with the rest of the specs.

Any ideas on how to exclude acceptance tests from the rake spec? And if
anyone else knows how to get it to know about Bundler, better :slight_smile:

Thanks,

Marcelo.

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El 22/06/2010, a las 08:16, Marcelo de Moraes S.
escribió:

Hello list,

I have noted a few problems when using rake spec. First, it doesn’t seem to
load the gems from the Gemfile (:test group) I had to add a required for
each gem in this group on the spec_helper.rb file when I tried to run the
tests vai rake spec, if I use the spec command, it works as expected.

Unfortunately I can’t help you here. At least with the versions I’m
using (rspec-rails 2.0.0.beta.12, steak 0.4.0.beta.1, rails
3.0.0.beta.4) I haven’t noted any problems.

Another thing – I’m using Steak for acceptance testing. Steak puts its
tests under spec/acceptance. Each Steak test uses the acceptance_helper.rb
helper script. This helper also automatically loads any ruby script from
spec/acceptance/support/*.rb. The issue here is that, when I run rake spec,
it is running acceptance tests as well, which would not be a problem if some
support scripts from it set not to use transactional fixtures and setup
DatabaseCleaner, and messes up with the rest of the specs.

Any ideas on how to exclude acceptance tests from the rake spec?

There is nothing intrinsically “special” about the “spec/acceptance”
directory so you could move that somewhere else (for example, Cucumber
sticks its features in a top-level “features” directory and you could do
the same kind of thing).

The only thing is the generator included with Steak will keep putting
the files into “spec/acceptance” unless you tweak the generator
yourself, or choose not to use it.

Also, the “spec:acceptance” Rake task defined by Steak in
“lib/tasks/steak.rake” would need to be updated to refer to your new
path.

If all of this seems like too much work, you could try posting a ticket
on the Steak tracker asking Luismi to consider changing the location of
the files:

He is usually very responsive, and I’m sure that he’ll either give you
what your asking for, or explain why it can’t be that way.

Cheers,
Wincent

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Thanks Wincent, I’ll do that.