Cliff, can you put together a reproducible example and open an issue on the
rspec-core issue tracker?  That would be the easiest way for us to dig into
this.

Thanks,
Myron

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 5:56 PM, Cliff Rosson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Something else is going on. Adding the folder in the exclusion pattern
> doesn't help especially since in the backtrace my working directory isn't
> even whats shown (observed above).
>
> I would expect the same behavior when calling the symlink as I would when
> calling the file directly. Clearly when calling the file directly it is
> working as expected. What else might be going on?
>
> I was able to easily reproduce this with the above ./example.rb file.
> Creating a symlink and calling the symlink.
>
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Jon Rowe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> >  I guess it only excludes the directory it runs from?
>>
>> It bases patterns from that yes.
>>
>> > I'd need to add each directory I am working in?
>>
>> No, you need to add the directory the spec files are in. You can get that
>> with `File.expand_path(__FILE__, ’/..’)`
>>
>> Jon Rowe
>> ---------------------------
>> [email protected]
>> jonrowe.co.uk
>>
>> On Friday, 1 January 2016 at 12:11, Cliff Rosson wrote:
>>
>> Re-reading Jon's post. I guess it only excludes the directory it runs
>> from? I'd need to add each directory I am working in?
>>
>> Just to spell it out, sorry if I am being dense, can I just have ruby
>> read the directory I am currently in then add that folder to the exclusion
>> list?
>>
>> On Thursday, December 31, 2015 at 5:07:31 PM UTC-8, Cliff Rosson wrote:
>>
>> Thanks everyone. So I just made some changes to my example file and
>> tested again. I still have the same issue on rspec3. Any thoughts?
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/ruby
>> require 'rspec/autorun'
>> require 'net/ping'
>>
>>
>> RSpec.configure do |config|
>>   config.full_backtrace=false
>> end
>>
>> describe "TEST A >> " do
>>   it "1:Ping is true >> " do
>>     host = Net::Ping::External.new("www.google.com")
>>     expect(host.ping?).to be false
>>   end
>> end
>>
>> If I call the file directly I get no traceback. If I call the symlink I
>> do. If I call the symlink from my bin directory, where it exists, then I
>> don't.
>>
>> Cliffords-iMac:Desktop crosson$ /Users/crosson/Desktop/scratch/example.rb
>>
>> F
>>
>>
>> Failures:
>>
>>
>>   1) TEST A >>  1:Ping is true >>
>>
>>      Failure/Error: expect(host.ping?).to be false
>>
>>
>>        expected false
>>
>>             got true
>>
>>      # ./scratch/example.rb:13:in `block (2 levels) in <main>'
>>
>>
>> Finished in 0.03627 seconds (files took 0.14898 seconds to load)
>>
>> 1 example, 1 failure
>>
>>
>> Failed examples:
>>
>>
>> rspec ./scratch/example.rb:11 # TEST A >>  1:Ping is true >>
>>
>>
>> Cliffords-iMac:Desktop crosson$ example
>>
>> F
>>
>>
>> Failures:
>>
>>
>>   1) TEST A >>  1:Ping is true >>
>>
>>      Failure/Error: expect(host.ping?).to be false
>>
>>
>>        expected false
>>
>>             got true
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-support-3.4.1/lib/rspec/support.rb:87:in
>> `block in <module:Support>'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-support-3.4.1/lib/rspec/support.rb:96:in
>> `call'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-support-3.4.1/lib/rspec/support.rb:96:in
>> `notify_failure'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-expectations-3.4.0/lib/rspec/expectations/fail_with.rb:27:in
>> `fail_with'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-expectations-3.4.0/lib/rspec/expectations/handler.rb:40:in
>> `handle_failure'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-expectations-3.4.0/lib/rspec/expectations/handler.rb:50:in
>> `block in handle_matcher'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-expectations-3.4.0/lib/rspec/expectations/handler.rb:27:in
>> `with_matcher'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-expectations-3.4.0/lib/rspec/expectations/handler.rb:48:in
>> `handle_matcher'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-expectations-3.4.0/lib/rspec/expectations/expectation_target.rb:54:in
>> `to'
>>
>>      # /Users/crosson/bin/example:13:in `block (2 levels) in <main>'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-3.4.1/lib/rspec/core/example.rb:236:in
>> `instance_exec'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-3.4.1/lib/rspec/core/example.rb:236:in
>> `block in run'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-3.4.1/lib/rspec/core/example.rb:477:in
>> `block in with_around_and_singleton_context_hooks'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-3.4.1/lib/rspec/core/example.rb:434:in
>> `block in with_around_example_hooks'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-3.4.1/lib/rspec/core/hooks.rb:478:in
>> `block in run'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-3.4.1/lib/rspec/core/hooks.rb:616:in
>> `run_around_example_hooks_for'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-3.4.1/lib/rspec/core/hooks.rb:478:in
>> `run'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-3.4.1/lib/rspec/core/example.rb:434:in
>> `with_around_example_hooks'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-3.4.1/lib/rspec/core/example.rb:477:in
>> `with_around_and_singleton_context_hooks'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-3.4.1/lib/rspec/core/example.rb:233:in
>> `run'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-3.4.1/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:581:in
>> `block in run_examples'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-3.4.1/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:577:in
>> `map'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-3.4.1/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:577:in
>> `run_examples'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-3.4.1/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:543:in
>> `run'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-3.4.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:115:in
>> `block (3 levels) in run_specs'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-3.4.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:115:in
>> `map'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-3.4.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:115:in
>> `block (2 levels) in run_specs'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-3.4.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:1680:in
>> `with_suite_hooks'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-3.4.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:114:in
>> `block in run_specs'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-3.4.1/lib/rspec/core/reporter.rb:77:in
>> `report'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-3.4.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:113:in
>> `run_specs'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-3.4.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:89:in
>> `run'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-3.4.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:73:in
>> `run'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-3.4.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:41:in
>> `invoke'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-3.4.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:34:in
>> `perform_at_exit'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-3.4.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:20:in
>> `block in autorun'
>>
>>      #
>>
>>      #   Showing full backtrace because every line was filtered out.
>>
>>      #   See docs for RSpec::Configuration#backtrace_exclusion_patterns
>> and
>>
>>      #   RSpec::Configuration#backtrace_inclusion_patterns for more
>> information.
>>
>>
>> Finished in 0.03689 seconds (files took 0.15154 seconds to load)
>>
>> 1 example, 1 failure
>>
>>
>> Failed examples:
>>
>>
>> rspec /Users/crosson/bin/example:11 # TEST A >>  1:Ping is true >>
>>
>>
>> Cliffords-iMac:Desktop crosson$ ls ~/bin/
>>
>> example
>>
>> Cliffords-iMac:Desktop crosson$ ls -l ~/bin/
>>
>> total 8
>>
>> lrwxr-xr-x  1 crosson  staff  41 Dec 31 16:59 example ->
>> /Users/crosson/Desktop/scratch/example.rb
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Cliffords-iMac:Desktop crosson$ cd ~/bin/
>>
>> Cliffords-iMac:bin crosson$ example
>>
>> F
>>
>>
>> Failures:
>>
>>
>>   1) TEST A >>  1:Ping is true >>
>>
>>      Failure/Error: expect(host.ping?).to be false
>>
>>
>>        expected false
>>
>>             got true
>>
>>      # ./example:13:in `block (2 levels) in <main>'
>>
>>
>> Finished in 0.03574 seconds (files took 0.16152 seconds to load)
>>
>> 1 example, 1 failure
>>
>>
>> Failed examples:
>>
>>
>> rspec ./example:11 # TEST A >>  1:Ping is true >>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, December 31, 2015 at 4:52:42 PM UTC-8, Myron Marston wrote:
>>
>> Our website has detailed upgrade instructions:
>>
>> http://rspec.info/upgrading-from-rspec-2/
>>
>> Besides upgrading to 2.99 first, the other important thing is using
>> transpec.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Myron
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Cliff Rosson <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Jon. I'll give it a shot. I ran into some semantic issues when
>> rspec released 3.0 some time ago but in reading the docs nothing really
>> stands out on why rspec3 wouldn't work for me.
>>
>> On Thursday, December 31, 2015 at 4:08:09 PM UTC-8, Jon Rowe wrote:
>>
>> Full backtrace is actually designed to force a full backtrace display,
>> turning it off merely uses the default inclusion / exclusion filters, by
>> default (if I remember correctly) this includes stuff based on your working
>> directory; so if you manually add the directory (even if you use ruby to
>> generate it from the file rather than the working directory) to the
>> exclusion filter it should be removed no matter where you run the test from.
>>
>> There’s been a fair amount of work on improving this behaviour in RSpec 3
>> and given that RSpec 2 isn’t supported I heartily recommend you upgrade to
>> the latest version, if you install 2.99 first it will be relatively
>> painless!
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jon
>>
>> Jon Rowe
>> ---------------------------
>> [email protected]
>> jonrowe.co.uk
>>
>> On Friday, 1 January 2016 at 04:52, Cliff Rosson wrote:
>>
>> Versions.
>>
>> rspec (2.14.1)
>>
>> rspec-core (2.14.8)
>>
>> rspec-expectations (2.14.5)
>>
>> rspec-mocks (2.14.6)
>>
>> On Wednesday, December 30, 2015 at 9:52:45 PM UTC-8, Cliff Rosson wrote:
>>
>> Hi Folk,
>>
>> Hopefully this is a very simple question. I use RSPEC as a functional
>> test for network maintenances. It allows me to loop a series of tests
>> during a maintenance providing a clean format and notification of any
>> behavioral changes on the network.
>>
>> Often times I expect some things to fail and in an attempt to keep
>> results clean I often want to hide the full backtrace. If I run my rspec
>> with the config.full_backtrace argument set to false everything works
>> great. If I symlink the file however the backtraces return.
>>
>> I wrote this example to illustrate my issue.
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/ruby
>> require 'rspec/autorun'
>> require 'net/ping'
>>
>>
>> RSpec.configure do |config|
>>   config.full_backtrace=false
>> end
>>
>> describe "TEST A >> " do
>>   it "1:Ping is true >> " do
>>     host = Net::Ping::External.new("www.google.com")
>>     host.ping?.should be_false
>>   end
>> end
>>
>>
>> if I run this directly it works great.
>>
>> /test_rspec.rb
>>
>> F
>>
>>
>> Failures:
>>
>>
>>   1) TEST A >>  1:Ping is true >>
>>
>>      Failure/Error: Unable to find matching line from backtrace
>>
>>        expected: false value
>>
>>             got: true
>>
>>      # ./test_rspec.rb:13:in `block (2 levels) in <main>'
>>
>>
>> Finished in 0.01479 seconds
>>
>> 1 example, 1 failure
>>
>>
>> Failed examples:
>>
>>
>> rspec ./test_rspec.rb:11 # TEST A >>  1:Ping is true >>
>>
>>
>> Nice and clean output.
>> However if I symlink the file I get the full backtrace which I really
>> just would rather ignore.
>>
>> ls -l ~/bin/
>>
>> total 24
>>
>> lrwxr-xr-x  1 cliff.rosson  USERS\Domain Users  49 Dec 30 16:56
>> test_rspec -> /Users/cliff.rosson/Desktop/scratch/test_rspec.rb
>>
>>
>>
>> And run the symlink
>>
>> test_rspec
>>
>> F
>>
>>
>> Failures:
>>
>>
>>   1) TEST A >>  1:Ping is true >>
>>
>>      Failure/Error: host.ping?.should be_false
>>
>>        expected: false value
>>
>>             got: true
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-expectations-2.14.5/lib/rspec/expectations/fail_with.rb:32:in
>> `fail_with'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-expectations-2.14.5/lib/rspec/expectations/handler.rb:36:in
>> `handle_matcher'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-expectations-2.14.5/lib/rspec/expectations/syntax.rb:53:in
>> `should'
>>
>>      # /Users/cliff.rosson/bin/test_rspec:13:in `block (2 levels) in
>> <main>'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.8/lib/rspec/core/example.rb:114:in
>> `instance_eval'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.8/lib/rspec/core/example.rb:114:in
>> `block in run'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.8/lib/rspec/core/example.rb:254:in
>> `with_around_each_hooks'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.8/lib/rspec/core/example.rb:111:in
>> `run'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.8/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:390:in
>> `block in run_examples'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.8/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:386:in
>> `map'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.8/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:386:in
>> `run_examples'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.8/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:371:in
>> `run'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.8/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:28:in
>> `block (2 levels) in run'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.8/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:28:in
>> `map'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.8/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:28:in
>> `block in run'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.8/lib/rspec/core/reporter.rb:58:in
>> `report'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.8/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:25:in
>> `run'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.8/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:80:in
>> `run'
>>
>>      #
>> /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/rspec-core-2.14.8/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:17:in
>> `block in autorun'
>>
>>
>> Finished in 0.01452 seconds
>>
>> 1 example, 1 failure
>>
>>
>> Failed examples:
>>
>>
>> rspec /Users/cliff.rosson/bin/test_rspec:11 # TEST A >>  1:Ping is true >>
>>
>>
>> Any-thoughts why this setting doesn't carry over when referencing the
>> symlink?
>>
>> Thanks everyone.
>>
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