On 8 July 2010 01:01, David Chelimsky <dchelim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 7, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Andrew Premdas wrote:
>
> > Hi there.
> >
> > My understanding (which is limited) is that rspec uses at_exit to run its
> specs. I don't really know why - could somoene explain?
>
> The initial motivation was that it makes it easy to make sure it works
> whether you run it with the ruby command or the rspec command. Over the
> years it has caused some trouble though, so I'd be interested in a different
> solution.
>
> > My problem with this behaviour is that I would like the running of a spec
> to start an instance of solr (using Sunspot) if one is not running. The
> problem with this is that Sunspot forks to start solr, and when these forks
> exit they run my specs. At best this causes specs to be run more than once,
> at worst it causes specs to fail in their hundreds.
> >
> > I can fix this by adding an at_exit for each fork ...
> >
> > fork do
> > ...
> > at_exit { exit! }
> > end
> >
> > but this means changing the Sunspot code, which I really shouldn't have
> to do to run specs. So is their anything else I can do. Ideally in
> spec_helper or another rspec support file.
>
> I added RSpec::Core::Runner.disable_autorun! to beta.16 in order to solve a
> similar problem. No guarantees it will stay there if I come up with a better
> way to deal with supporting multiple entry points, but if I remove it I'll
> formally deprecate it (so you're safe to use it).
>
> HTH,
> David
>
> Thanks for your reply David. Does this only apply only to rspec2? (the beta
16 seems a bit of a giveaway). Is there something I can do with rspec 1x.
I've tried commenting out require 'spec/autorun', but that had no effect.
Is there is something I could do like put a monkey patch in spec helper.
On a related note, can rspec 2 be used on rails 2x projects
All best
Andrew
>
> > TIA
> >
> > Andrew
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