Hello, After upgrading to rspec 2.0.0.rc, I ran into an issue that I reported at http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/issues/issue/183/#issue/183. When testing something that returned nil, effectively executing 'nil.should == something_not_nil', rspec would come crashing down. It turned out not to be a bug in rspec (or, at least, David can't reproduce it).
I initially wrote it off as something strange with my setup and worked around it for now (specs usually succeed, so nil == nil and everything works fine), but as 'scrymmyin' reported seeing the same behavior in issue 183, and as I also see it with rspec 2.0.0, I thought it might be nice to document it here. I can reproduce the behavior as follows: - gem install rspec --version=2.0.0 - mkdir sandbox; cd sandbox - create Gemfile with contents gem 'rspec', '2.0.0' - run bundle install - mkdir spec - create spec/nil_fail.rb with contents describe 'Sandbox' do it 'should show the difference' do nil.should == 'foo' end end - run rspec spec/nil_fail.rb The result is: u...@machine:~/dev/ruby/sandbox$ rspec spec/nil_fail.rb F Failures: 1) Sandbox should show the difference $REE_gems_path/rspec-core-2.0.0.rc/lib/rspec/core/formatters/base_formatter.rb:138:in find_failed_line': undefined methoddowncase' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError) from $REE_gems_path/rspec-expectations-2.0.0.rc/lib/rspec/expectations/fail_with.rb:29:in `detect' from $REE_gems_path/rspec-core-2.0.0.rc/lib/rspec/core/formatters/base_formatter.rb:136:in `each' from $REE_gems_path/rspec-core-2.0.0.rc/lib/rspec/core/formatters/base_formatter.rb:136:in `detect' from $REE_gems_path/rspec-core-2.0.0.rc/lib/rspec/core/formatters/base_formatter.rb:136:in `find_failed_line' from $REE_gems_path/rspec-core-2.0.0.rc/lib/rspec/core/formatters/base_formatter.rb:122:in `read_failed_line' from $REE_gems_path/rspec-core-2.0.0.rc/lib/rspec/core/formatters/base_text_formatter.rb:27:in `dump_failures' from $REE_gems_path/rspec-expectations-2.0.0.rc/lib/rspec/expectations/fail_with.rb:29:in `each_with_index' from $REE_gems_path/rspec-core-2.0.0.rc/lib/rspec/core/formatters/base_text_formatter.rb:17:in `each' from $REE_gems_path/rspec-core-2.0.0.rc/lib/rspec/core/formatters/base_text_formatter.rb:17:in `each_with_index' from $REE_gems_path/rspec-core-2.0.0.rc/lib/rspec/core/formatters/base_text_formatter.rb:17:in `dump_failures' from $REE_gems_path/rspec-core-2.0.0.rc/lib/rspec/core/reporter.rb:74:in `send' from $REE_gems_path/rspec-core-2.0.0.rc/lib/rspec/core/reporter.rb:74:in `notify' from $REE_gems_path/rspec-core-2.0.0.rc/lib/rspec/core/reporter.rb:73:in `each' from $REE_gems_path/rspec-core-2.0.0.rc/lib/rspec/core/reporter.rb:73:in `notify' from $REE_gems_path/rspec-core-2.0.0.rc/lib/rspec/core/reporter.rb:22:in `conclude' from $REE_gems_path/rspec-core-2.0.0.rc/lib/rspec/core/reporter.rb:13:in `report' from $REE_gems_path/rspec-core-2.0.0.rc/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:23:in `run' from $REE_gems_path/rspec-core-2.0.0.rc/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:55:in `run_in_process' from $REE_gems_path/rspec-core-2.0.0.rc/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:46:in `run' from $REE_gems_path/rspec-core-2.0.0.rc/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:10:in `autorun' from $REE_path/bin/rspec:19 best regards, -- Ivo Wever _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users