Good man for picking this up.
I vote for opts, FWIW. Environment variables are useful if they need
to be trickled down to child processes, but otherwise I think they're
a bit evil - hidden dependencies and all that.
On 12 Aug 2009, at 18:26, Chris Flipse wrote:
Pardon the crosspost, but this applies to both
So, at work, I'm one of several people developing on the same multi-
user unix system. I/we would like to be able to use the drb server,
but at the moment rspec,cucumber and spork assume a single well
known port number for drb. That doesn't work well on a multi-user
system.
My itch, and I'm starting to look through the codebases to scratch
it. I'm planning on patches for spork and cucumber as well.
There are two ways I can see to implement this, just wanted to see
what people thought about it. The first is through an environment
variable, and the second is through adding command line switches.
adding the switches to the command lines seems like it will be more
invasive, and it would require people to remember to specify the
port on any manual invocations. Also need to pass the right port in
to your spork invocations. On the other hand, it's more consistant
with the way the rest of the options are specified, and could be set
in an indivudual user's cucumber.yml or spec.opts, mitigating the
command line issue (though, frequently, I don't use my spec.opts file)
setting an environment variable, say RSPEC_DRB or CUCUMBER_DRB would
be much less invasive, since the main codebases specify their global
drb ports through a constant anyway. It'd be fairly easy to have
them check for an environment variable before accepting the
default. I'd just have to add the ability to specify a specific
port to spork. Downside is that it's not as consistant with the
rest of the configuration. Upside from a user perspective is that
it's completely fire-and-forget; just set an env variable in
your .profile, and you're done worrying about it...
Thoughts?
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