Thanks for all the hints. I'm pretty sure however, that Bundler ist NOT the issue. Both boot.rb and config/preinitializer.rb are as expected and the app itself starts fine both with script/server or script/console.
However, as soon as rspec is loaded (when running the tests), then the plugins aren't loaded anymore. A wild guess is that Rspec causes the loading of plugins to fail in mysterious ways, but I don't enough of either the Rails 2.3 booting process nor the Rspec magic to pinpoint the location where I should put my finger on. Any further ideas that I could look into? thanks jc On 21 Okt., 22:18, Lenny Marks <le...@aps.org> wrote: > On Oct 21, 2011, at 11:05 AM, Andrew Premdas wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On 21 October 2011 10:26, Matt Wynne <m...@mattwynne.net> wrote: > > >> On 18 Oct 2011, at 15:02, Jens-Christian Fischer wrote: > > >>> Hi there > > >>> I have a weird situation. I have inherited a project in Rails 1.2.3 > >>> that has been upgraded to Rails 2.3.14 (and is running). I have > >>> installed Cucumber and Rspec to start to write features/tests for the > >>> new code that needs to be written. In my Gemfile, these Gems are > >>> loaded: > > >>> group :test do > >>> gem 'rspec-rails', '~> 1.3.4', :require => 'spec/rails' > >>> gem 'rspec', '~> 1.3.2', :require => 'spec' > >>> gem "capybara", "0.3.9" > >>> gem "cucumber", "0.9.4" > >>> gem "cucumber-rails", "0.3.2" > >>> gem 'database_cleaner' > >>> end > > >>> When I run the specs (bundle exec spec spec), I get error messages > >>> because the plugins of the application aren't loaded. > > >>> Indeed, if I bundle the gems in "group :test, :development do ", then > >>> script/server and script/console fail to start as well because the > >>> plugins aren't loaded. > > >>> Anyone seen this problem or can give me a hint of why the plugins > >>> suddenly aren't loaded (and where I should poke to find the cause)? > > >>> thanks > >>> Jens-Christian > > >> My guess is that, because this is an older Rails app, it doesn't use > >> Bundler as you'd expect. In a Rails 3 app, your config/application.rb will > >> have something like this near the top: > > >> Bundler.require(:default, Rails.env) if defined?(Bundler) > > >> That's the magic that tells Bundler to require all the plugins for the > >> test environment when you run the tests. You'll need to stick something > >> like that into your Rails 1 app. > > >> One other problem you'll probably hit: Capybara won't work with Rails apps > >> that old, so you'll need to use Webrat for integration testing instead. > > > The op said the app had been upgraded to 2.3.14 which supports > > capybara (has rack). The Rails 2.3.12 that (for my sins) I'm currently > > working on has some code near the bottom of config/boot.rb to load > > bundler. > > > class Rails::Boot > > def run > > load_initializer > > > Rails::Initializer.class_eval do > > def load_gems > > @bundler_loaded ||= begin > > result = Bundler.require :default > > Bundler.require(Rails.env) unless Rails.env.test? > > result > > end > > end > > end > > > Rails::Initializer.run(:set_load_path) > > end > > end > > > HTH > > If Bundler is the issue, you have to have followed these > instructions(probably where the snippet above came from) to get things set up > with Rails 2.3 > > http://gembundler.com/rails23.html > > -lenny > > > > > > > > > > > > > All best > > > Andrew > > >> cheers, > >> Matt > > >> -- > >> Freelance programmer & coach > >> Author,http://pragprog.com/book/hwcuc/the-cucumber-book(with Aslak > >> Hellesøy) > >> Founder,http://relishapp.com > >> +44(0)7974430184 |http://twitter.com/mattwynne > > >> _______________________________________________ > >> rspec-users mailing list > >> rspec-us...@rubyforge.org > >>http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > > > -- > > ------------------------ > > Andrew Premdas > > blog.andrew.premdas.org > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
