Rspec rake tasks fail inside active record

Testing RSpec
1

Hi,

i have a problem that any of my rspec rake tasks fail with the following
error:
rake -f unittests.rake spec
** Invoke spec (first_time)
** Execute spec
C:/Ruby18/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.8/lib/active_support/core_ext/logger.rb:53:
undefined method datetime_format=' for class Logger’ (NameError)
from
C:/Ruby18/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
gem_original_require' from C:/Ruby18/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in require’
from
C:/Ruby18/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.8/lib/active_support/core_ext.rb:8
from
C:/Ruby18/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.8/lib/active_support/core_ext.rb:8:in
each' from C:/Ruby18/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.8/lib/active_support/core_ext.rb:8 from C:/Ruby18/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in gem_original_require’
from
C:/Ruby18/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
require' from C:/Ruby18/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.8/lib/active_support.rb:56 ... 11 levels... from C:/Ruby18/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/runner/example_group_runner.rb:14:in load_file
s’
from
C:/Ruby18/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/runner/options.rb:133:in
run_examples' from C:/Ruby18/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/runner/command_line.rb:9:in run’
from C:/Ruby18/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.3.0/bin/spec:5
rake aborted!

My rake tasks are trivial like this:
Spec::Rake::SpecTask.new do |t|
t.spec_files = FileList[‘lib/deposit_handler/spec/*.rb’]
end

I am watir+rspec. Could the problem be that activesupport being a part
of
rails is missing some dependencies? Googling around did not seem to
bring
any results.

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On Jul 6, 2010, at 6:49 AM, andreyr wrote:

C:/Ruby18/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
from
s’
Spec::Rake::SpecTask.new do |t|
t.spec_files = FileList[‘lib/deposit_handler/spec/*.rb’]
end

I am watir+rspec. Could the problem be that activesupport being a part of
rails is missing some dependencies? Googling around did not seem to bring
any results.

We need to see some code. Please post the Rakefile and spec file.

3

Hi David,

it would be difficult to do as I would need to post something like 15
files
that are used in the spec file, otherwise the code would make no sense.
However, I have solved the problem. While trying to make a meaningful
example for you, I narrowed the problem down to the single line of code
which is

require ‘firewatir’

This is an older module not needed anymore and it was creating the
problem.
After dropping it things started to work. It definitely was not an rspec
problem, even though it looked so from the error messages.

I am still wondering why running the same spec file with the spec
command
worked but with rake did not. I noticed that the list of loaded modules
is
different when running with spec as compared to running with rake. Spec
loads activesupport much earlier than rake and I think this is the
answer -
by the time when firewatir wants to access logger in case of using spec
it’s
already there but in case of rake not.

Anyway the problem is solved, thanks for your help.

David C.-2 wrote:

We need to see some code. Please post the Rakefile and spec file.

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