Hi, I'm trying to update my GemInstaller app's functional tests to pass against rubygems 0.9.5. I'm having problems getting an embedded test gem server to run reliably under 0.9.4 and 0.9.5.
Previously, under 0.9.4, I did a full automated install of rubygems 0.9.4 to a temp dir, and used that dir as my test gem home as well. The load path still used 0.9.4 rubygems libs from my system install (/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems), but this was ok because I only ran tests against 0.9.4. I have a local dummy dir of various stub gems which I run an embedded server against, and my tests use GemInstaller to install these gems in various ways. Now, I'm trying to use an environment var RUBYGEMS_VERSION= to automatically put the appropriate embedded distro of rubygems onto my load path, and run an embedded gem server and all of my tests ageinst that specified version (either 0.9.4 or 0.9.5). I can't make this work, however. Gem server does strange things - it will sometimes not show all gems, or sometimes it gets port conflict errors even though there is no other server running, or it shows the rubyforge gems instead of gems in my specified dir. I even have problems when I attempt to manually run the gem server with a specified --port and --dir pointing to dummy gems, and then do a gem list with --remote and --source=http://localhost:port. This used to work fine with 0.9.4, but now I get errors on 0.9.5 boxes, and sometimes even on 0.9.4 boxes which used to work. It also seems to matter whether I use 127.0.0.1 vs. localhost. I've tried to debug this all weekend, but I keep getting lost in the source_index and related gem list/query code. It's also difficult because I'm not sure how to reliably downgrade a rubygems installation from 0.9.5 to 0.9.4. Just installing 0.9.4 over 0.9.5 left stuff broken. I could manually delete stuff and reinstall 0.9.4, but I'm afraid I might miss something. Has anyone tried to do anything like this? Any tips or pointers on how to debug these gem server problems more methodically are welcome. Thanks, --Chad _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
