Thanks Andrew, That was the right hint.
I took the autospec command list of all specs and ran them in smaller groups - which led to discovering a Declarative Auth config switch that was heretofore isolated. Apparently in the new version of this gem it does not get reset between tests. Once I removed those WMD's of auth control all my tests returned to normal. Another lesson learned, muchas gracias. regards, Andy On Dec 5, 2:11 am, Andrew Premdas <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/12/4 Andy Koch <[email protected]> > > > > > Hi All, > > > any reason why some tests might pass via spec ... and fail from within > > autospec? > > > I have a rails app using AuthLogic and Declarative Authorization. I > > have tests that create user_sessions and assign roles against which > > CRUD rules are tested. > > > This has bee working just fine. > > > But this morning I updated the Declarative Auth gem and suddenly > > started seeing failing tests. I immediately blamed DA, or really my > > usage of it. But then I started running the spec files individually > > via "spec ..." commands and everything started passing - which was > > actually more disturbing for me. > > > so now I wonder what autospec might be doing that is different from > > straight "spec ..." commands? > > > when I run "rake spec" they fail just like in autospec - there's some > > comforting consistency, failing tests notwithstanding. > > > thanks for any insights > > _______________________________________________ > > rspec-users mailing list > > [email protected] > >http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > > Generally this indicates a problem with one spec interfering with another. > Run separately the specs run fine, because the state is completely reset > between each run. However run together (and this can be order dependent, > just to add to the confusion) and they break. Debugging this can be quite > tricky, monitoring the test database, and the test.log should help. However > generally I find that you just have to pay real close attention to any specs > that create any sort of permanent artifact, and any specs that rely on there > being a certain number of artifacts e.g. the first role. > > All best > > Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > [email protected]http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
