2009/11/27 Ben Mabey <b...@benmabey.com>
> Andrew Premdas wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a rails application whose specs run on about eight different boxes,
>> but I can't get them to work on my integration server. The bit thats
>> breaking concerns some modules that I have in spec/support/modules which are
>> loaded by
>> the following line in spec_helper
>>
>> # get any macros etc
>> Dir[File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/support/**/*.rb"].each {|f| require f}
>>
>>
>> one of these modules includes the other modules, and this generates the
>> following stacktrace
>>
>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:440:in
>> `load_missing_constant': uninitialized constant
>> OrderSpecHelper::BasketSpecHelper (NameError)
>> from
>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:80:in
>> `const_missing'
>> from ./spec/helpers/../support/modules/order_spec_helper.rb:2
>> from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
>> `gem_original_require'
>> from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
>> `require'
>> from
>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:158:in
>> `require'
>> the line causing this is order_spec_helper.rb:2
>>
>> module OrderSpecHelper
>> include BasketSpecHelper
>> and BasketSpecHelper is defined in
>> /support/modules/basket_spec_helper.rb
>>
>>
>> and is coded something like
>>
>> module BasketSpecHelper
>> ...
>>
>> I wonder if anyone has any ideas about the cause of this problem or some
>> ideas about possible solutions
>>
>
> I've ran into similar issues. The problem in my case was the my
> integration server was running linux but our dev boxes were OSx. The issue
> was file ordering being different for the Dir::[] method on the OSes. Try
> adding a sort call like so:
>
> Dir[File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/support/**/*.rb"].sort.each {|f| require f}
>
> HTH,
> Ben
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Ben,
That fixed it :) many thanks once again
All best
Andrew
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