I figured it out. In 0.7.3, Rake forked the process to run the ruby binary, e.g. "c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe ...", whereas in 0.8.7 it uses the windows 'call' command, e.g. "call c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe ...".
Not backward compatible at all. Brian Hartin wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having a problem running tests with rake 0.8.7 on Windows. My > 'rake:test' can't find the test files, e.g. '/test/unit/xxx_test.rb'. I > traced the problem to Rake::TestTask, where it forks a new ruby process > to run the rake_test_loader.rb script. The 'current directory', from > which I ran 'rake:test', is lost. The new ruby process thinks it's > running in my user home directory. For rake 0.7.3, this does not occur, > and the tests run find. However, I can't see any code change that would > explain this difference? > > Does anyone know of a workaround, or why this happens? Rolling back to > rake 0.7.3 works, but is clunky since our version of Rails (1.2.5) will > install the Rake 0.8.7 by default. > > Thanks, > > Brian -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
