Rake spec failure in beta.13

Testing RSpec
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I just upgraded to beta.13 and I’m running into an issue where when I
run ‘rake spec’, I get an ‘uninitialized constant Comment’ error.
Comment is the first model (alphabetically) in my project. If I
switch back to beta.12, it works. If I use ‘spec .’ and not ‘rake
spec’, it also works.

Environment: Rails master, Mongoid master.

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On Jun 24, 2010, at 1:23 PM, geetarista wrote:

I just upgraded to beta.13 and I’m running into an issue where when I
run ‘rake spec’, I get an ‘uninitialized constant Comment’ error.
Comment is the first model (alphabetically) in my project. If I
switch back to beta.12, it works. If I use ‘spec .’ and not ‘rake
spec’, it also works.

Environment: Rails master, Mongoid master.

Did you run ‘bundle update’?

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I did both ‘bundle install’ and ‘bundle update’.

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On Jun 24, 2010, at 2:24 PM, geetarista wrote:

Did you run ‘bundle update’?
I did both ‘bundle install’ and ‘bundle update’.

Did you upgrade rails as well? rspec-rails-2.0.0.beta.13 only works with
rails-3.0.0.beta4.

HTH,
David

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On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:12 PM, geetarista [email protected]
wrote:

switch back to beta.12, it works. If I use ‘spec .’ and not ‘rake
spec’, it also works.

Environment: Rails master, Mongoid master.

Did you run ‘bundle update’?
I did both ‘bundle install’ and ‘bundle update’.

Did you upgrade rails as well? rspec-rails-2.0.0.beta.13 only works with rails-3.0.0.beta4.

I’m using Rails master.

I’m at a loss. Please run “rake spec --trace” and post the full
backtrace.

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I’m using Rails master.

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Here’s the backtrace and the spec file: 452355’s gists · GitHub

Also, if I delete that spec file, it just goes to the next
alphabetical file and gives the same error for that model name.

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http://gist.github.com/452385

(It’s the default generated from rails g rspec:install).

I’m not sure what else it could be. I literally change my Gemfile
from beta.12 (where specs work) to beta.13 run ‘bundle install/update’
and it then fails.

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On Jun 24, 2010, at 11:05 PM, geetarista wrote:

http://gist.github.com/452385

(It’s the default generated from rails g rspec:install).

I’m not sure what else it could be. I literally change my Gemfile
from beta.12 (where specs work) to beta.13 run ‘bundle install/update’
and it then fails.

I seriously doubt this will fix the problem, but try changing Rspec to
RSpec on line 11.

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That did not fix it.

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On Jun 24, 2010, at 10:36 PM, geetarista wrote:

run ‘rake spec’, I get an ‘uninitialized constant Comment’ error.

I’m using Rails master.

I’m at a loss. Please run “rake spec --trace” and post the full backtrace.
Here’s the backtrace and the spec file: 452355’s gists · GitHub

Also, if I delete that spec file, it just goes to the next
alphabetical file and gives the same error for that model name.

What’s in spec_helper.rb? The backtace makes It look as though the rails
framework is not loaded.

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El 25/06/2010, a las 15:38, geetarista
escribió:

That did not fix it.

What have you got in your Gemfile?

Cheers,
Wincent

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Gemfile: http://gist.github.com/453032

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El 25/06/2010, a las 17:44, geetarista
escribió:

Gemfile: http://gist.github.com/453032

On Jun 25, 7:41 am, Wincent C. [email protected] wrote:

El 25/06/2010, a las 15:38, geetarista escribió:

That did not fix it.

What have you got in your Gemfile?

(Aside: please don’t top-post; it makes your replies cumbersome to
read.)

Was kind of hoping I’d see something glaringly weird in your Gemfile,
but nothing leaps out at me.

Why do you have the “:require => nil” for RSpec in your test
environment? AFAIK this won’t explain the failure you’re seeing, but I
still wonder why you’re doing it.

On a tangent, you’re 10 releases of Haml behind, and a lot of Rails 3
fixes have been made since 3.0.3.

Cheers,
Wincent

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Sorry about that. For some reason I thought Google Reader stripped
that automatically.

I added “:require => nil” because I had read somewhere that it was
good to do so. Can’t remember why or where. Taking it out does not
fix the failure.

I just haven’t upgraded Haml because it’s not top priority and I
haven’t run into any issues yet.

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On Jun 25, 2010, at 4:51 PM, geetarista wrote:

Sorry about that. For some reason I thought Google Reader stripped
that automatically.

I added “:require => nil” because I had read somewhere that it was
good to do so. Can’t remember why or where. Taking it out does not
fix the failure.

I just haven’t upgraded Haml because it’s not top priority and I
haven’t run into any issues yet.

I figured out the problem. It boils down to these two lines in
spec/spec_helper.rb

ENV[“RAILS_ENV”] ||= ‘test’
require File.dirname(FILE) + “/…/config/environment” unless
defined?(Rails)

I’m changing those to this for the next release:

ENV[‘RAILS_ENV’] = ENV[‘RSPEC_RAILS_ENV’] || ‘test’
require File.expand_path("…/…/config/environment", FILE)

Do that in your spec_helper now and it should work correctly. Please
confirm.

Thx,
David

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On Jun 25, 2010, at 4:51 PM, geetarista wrote:

Sorry about that. For some reason I thought Google Reader stripped
that automatically.

I added “:require => nil” because I had read somewhere that it was
good to do so. Can’t remember why or where. Taking it out does not
fix the failure.

I just haven’t upgraded Haml because it’s not top priority and I
haven’t run into any issues yet.

I’ve been able to reproduce the issue, and should have a fix in place
soon.

Assuming I’ve got the fix, I’ll explain what happened once it’s pushed
to github.

Cheers,
David

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On Jun 26, 2010, at 12:13 PM, David C. wrote:

haven’t run into any issues yet.

I’ve been able to reproduce the issue, and should have a fix in place soon.

Assuming I’ve got the fix, I’ll explain what happened once it’s pushed to github.

What I believe to be the fix is now up in github. Geetarista, would you
do me a favor and update your gemfile to point to the git repos:

gem “rspec-rails”, :git => “git://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails.git”
gem “rspec-core”, :git => “git://github.com/rspec/rspec-core.git”
gem “rspec-expectations”, :git =>
“git://github.com/rspec/rspec-expectations.git”
gem “rspec-mocks”, :git => “git://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks.git”
gem “rspec”, :git => “git://github.com/rspec/rspec.git”

Need to get all of them from git for this to work (just temporary until
I get a release out).

Then ‘bundle install’ and ‘rake spec’ and let me know if all is well.

Thanks,
David

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That fixed it. Thanks so much, David!

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Thank you all for this discussion and the fix

I ran into the same issue this morning, but with “Factory” being the
class that was undefined (using Factory Girl)

The fix explained in this discussion worked for me.
As a reminder for others :

1 - update spec_helper
require File.expand_path("…/…/config/environment", FILE)
instead of
require File.dirname(FILE) + “/…/config/environment” unless
defined?(Rails)

2 - update gemfile
gem ‘rspec-rails’, “2.0.0.beta.14.1”

3 - bundle install or bundle update (depending on your version of
bundler)