Spork and Merb and rSpec

Testing RSpec
1

When running spork on a merb application, whenever a spec is run I get
the following error from the Spork server.

/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.0.11/lib/merb-core/
bootloader.rb:1358: [BUG] rb_gc_mark(): unknown data type
0x3c(0x2203d0) non object
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-08 patchlevel 173) [i686-darwin9]

Which crashes the Spork server.

Anyone else out there had experience in getting Merb and Spork running
together nicely?

Andy Shipman

2

Andy Shipman wrote:

When running spork on a merb application, whenever a spec is run I get
the following error from the Spork server.

/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/merb-core-1.0.11/lib/merb-core/bootloader.rb:1358:
[BUG] rb_gc_mark(): unknown data type 0x3c(0x2203d0) non object
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-08 patchlevel 173) [i686-darwin9]

Which crashes the Spork server.

Have you tried it on 1.8.6?

Scott

3

On 15 Jun 2009, at 14:43, Scott T. wrote:

Have you tried it on 1.8.6?
I have now and it works on 1.8.6. Thanks for the suggestion.

4

On Jun 15, 2009, at 4:11 PM, Andy Shipman wrote:

Which crashes the Spork server.

Have you tried it on 1.8.6?

I have now and it works on 1.8.6. Thanks for the suggestion.

I’d suggest filing a bug on their tracker, wherever it may lie.

Scott

5

Scott T. wrote:

[BUG] rb_gc_mark(): unknown data type 0x3c(0x2203d0) non object
Scott
Spork uses github issues. Also, FYI, spork has it’s own mailing list:
http://groups.google.com/group/sporkgem

-Ben

6

I’m interested to hear your experience with Spork and Merb. Right now
Spork
is doing some hooks in to rails (that are actually kind of aggressive
right
now) to help make spork work more out of the box - specifically,
preventing
rails from preloading application models and controllers before the fork
occurs.
Be sure to run spork -d and look to see which files are being preloaded.
Every file listed there will be cached and not reloaded until spork is
restarted.

Tim

7

Hey Andy,
I’d be happy to work with you on getting merb support going. I’m not a
merb
developer myself, but I am interested in expanding spork to work with
other
frameworks.

I’ll create a merb app and see what I can do to get it to work.

Tim

8

On 16 Jun 2009, at 22:11, Tim H. wrote:

Tim
On a brand new merb app, its clear that Spork isn’t going to work too
well for me then!

6> ~/dev/spork-test % spork -d
Using RSpec
Loading Spork.prefork block…

  • Spork Diagnosis -
    – Summary –
    app/controllers/application.rb
    app/controllers/exceptions.rb
    app/helpers/global_helpers.rb
    app/models/user.rb
    config/dependencies.rb
    config/environments/test.rb
    config/init.rb
    config/router.rb
    merb/merb-auth/setup.rb
    merb/merb-auth/strategies.rb
    merb/session/session.rb
    spec/spec_helper.rb

Looking at the way that you’re dealing with Rails, and given my lack
of understanding of Merb internals, I’m not sure that I’m going to get
too far, tbh.

Any suggestions as to where to start to review this to see if it can
be made to work? Or should I just wait until Merb becomes Rails 3 :wink:

Andy