Thank you. That makes perfect sense. Just in case anyone else comes across this, for me to include spec/ before_rails_loads/test_notifer.rb I needed to remove the underscore so:
Dir['spec/before_rails_loads/*.rb'].each {|f| require f} On Mar 3, 5:38 am, David Chelimsky <dchelim...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:13 PM, drewB <dbats...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I may not have been clear. When I said if I add it to the top of my > > spec.opts file, I meant adding, '--require "test_notifier/rspec"'. > > > Nevertheless, I tried you suggestion (a very good one). > > Unfortunately, it seems that it must be required before "require > > File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),'..','config','environment'))" > > or the following error appears: > > > /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:270:in `activate': You have a > > nil object when you didn't expect it! (NoMethodError) > > You might have expected an instance of Array. > > The error occurred while evaluating nil.map > > If you know where it works in the spec_helper file, then you can do > what I suggested before, but in a new directory. So right now in > spec_helper you've got something like: > > Dir['spec/support/*_.rb'].each {|f| require f} > > Do the same thing, but put your helpers in a separate directory, and > include that _before_ the line that requires 'config/environment' > > Dir['spec/before_rails_loads/*_.rb'].each {|f| require f} > require > File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),'..','config','environment')) > > HTH, > David > > > > > > > On Mar 2, 11:33 am, David Chelimsky <dchelim...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:22 PM, drewB <dbats...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > There is a nice little gem that gives you desktop notifications of > >> > your spec commands called test_noitifer (http://github.com/fnando/ > >> > test_notifier). I can get it to work by including require > >> > "test_notifier/rspec" toward the top of my spec_helper, or by manually > >> > including it in the command line like: > > >> > spec <spec file> --require "test_notifier/rspec" > > >> > However, if I add it to the top of my spec.opts file, I get the > >> > following error: > > >> > /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in > >> > `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- "test_notifier/ > >> > rspec" (LoadError) > > >> > Any ideas on how to make it work? I don't want to add it to > >> > spec_helper because then others on my team would need to use the gem > >> > as well (which they might not want to). > > >> spec.opts is not a ruby file, so you can't put it there. Why not add > >> it to a ruby file in spec/support/ that you don't keep in source > >> control? > >> _______________________________________________ > >> rspec-users mailing list > >> rspec-us...@rubyforge.orghttp://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > > _______________________________________________ > > rspec-users mailing list > > rspec-us...@rubyforge.org > >http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-us...@rubyforge.orghttp://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users