On Feb 14, 2011, at 20:20, Kane Baccigalupi <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> David Chelimsky wrote in post #981651: > > I am happy to get back to you about the documentation a little later. I > want to take the time to fully describe the problems we had. Much appreciated. > >> Please let me know what is not yet documented on the following pages: >> >> http://relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-core/v/2-5/file/upgrade >> http://relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-expectations/v/2-5/file/upgrade >> http://relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/v/2-5/file/upgrade >> http://relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-rails/v/2-5/file/upgrade >> >>> puts Johnson.evaluate <<-JS >>> Johnson.runtime.gc(); // trying to cleanup via JS >>> JS >>> end >>> >>> We have tried a lot of ordering combinations in our garbage collection >>> to see if anything will work, but instead the memory is climbing out of >>> control with each suite. In version RSpec 1.x we didn't have to do any >>> manual garbage collection. >> >> Nor should you have to. Can you use after(:each) instead of after all? >> >> config.after(:each) { @dom = nil } > > We set up our @dom in a before :all block and reuse it through out the > file. We don't want to eliminate it after each test, just once per > block/file/whatever we set up. > > The problem isn't that the block isn't getting called at the right time. > The problem is that dereferencing the instance variable doesn't seem to > be releasing the variable for garbage collection like it was happening > in version 1.x. We don't know why, and what might be different about > RSpec 2 variable references. The instance vars in after(:all) are copies, so setting them to nil there has no real effect. This was true in rspec 1 as well, so what you are experiencing is unrelated. As a workaround, how about setting a global? Not a perm solution, but might get your suite working for the moment. > More important, we are looking for a good > solution, any solution, to the memory problem. > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
