Upgrading to RSpec 0.9.3Edit

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Pre-testing

First double check that all specs are passing for Walrus. This is a good check because there are a lot of specifications, many of them containing numerous assertions:

# from the top-level directory of the Walrus source tree:
rake spec

Output

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1)
'calling source_text on a message expression inside an echo directive should return the text of the expression only' FAILED
expected 5, got 0 (using ==)
./spec/walrus_grammar/message_expression_spec.rb:29:

Finished in 41.898591 seconds

303 examples, 1 failure
rake aborted!

Download and install

sudo gem install rspec

Output

Need to update 36 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org
....................................
complete
Successfully installed rspec-0.9.3
Installing ri documentation for rspec-0.9.3...
Installing RDoc documentation for rspec-0.9.3...

Update FastRI index

fastri-server -b

Output

Indexing RI docs for ZenTest version 3.5.2.
Indexing RI docs for actionmailer version 1.3.3.
Indexing RI docs for actionpack version 1.13.3.
Indexing RI docs for actionwebservice version 1.2.3.
Indexing RI docs for activerecord version 1.15.3.
Indexing RI docs for activesupport version 1.4.2.
Indexing RI docs for dhaka version 2.1.0.
Indexing RI docs for diff-lcs version 1.1.2.
Indexing RI docs for fastri version 0.3.0.1.
Indexing RI docs for hoe version 1.2.0.
Indexing RI docs for model_security_generator version 0.0.9.
Indexing RI docs for rake version 0.7.3.
Indexing RI docs for rcodetools version 0.5.0.0.
Indexing RI docs for rcov version 0.8.0.2.
Indexing RI docs for rspec version 0.9.3.
Indexing RI docs for ruby-debug version 0.9.3.
Indexing RI docs for ruby-debug-base version 0.9.3.
Indexing RI docs for ruby-prof version 0.4.1.
Indexing RI docs for rubyforge version 0.4.1.
Indexing RI docs for rubygems version 0.9.2.
Indexing RI docs for sqlite3-ruby version 1.2.1.
Indexing RI docs for walrus version 0.1.
Indexing RI docs for zentest version 3.5.0.
Building index.
Indexed:
* 12059 methods
* 2404 classes/modules
Needed 2.430271 seconds

Post-testing

# run the specs again
rake spec

Output

Should be (and is) identical to the pre-intallation output:

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1)
'calling source_text on a message expression inside an echo directive should return the text of the expression only' FAILED
expected 5, got 0 (using ==)
./spec/walrus_grammar/message_expression_spec.rb:29:

Finished in 36.943312 seconds

303 examples, 1 failure
rake aborted!

Autotest

David Chelimsky here describes a patch that you can apply to get ZenTest 3.5.2 working without any further modifications. I’m hoping that 3.5.3 will incorporate the patch. In the meantime I decided to reinstall a patched version of ZenTest over my existing unpatched 3.5.2 installation.

wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/20212/ZenTest-3.5.2.tgz
tar xzvf ZenTest-3.5.2.tgz
cd ZenTest-3.5.2/
wget http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/files/ZenTest-3.5.2-rspec.patch
patch -p0 < ZenTest-3.5.2-rspec.patch

ZenTest build

rake gem

Output

  Successfully built RubyGem
  Name: ZenTest
  Version: 3.5.2
  File: ZenTest-3.5.2.gem

ZenTest install

sudo gem install pkg/ZenTest-3.5.2.gem

Output

Successfully installed ZenTest, version 3.5.2
Installing ri documentation for ZenTest-3.5.2...
Installing RDoc documentation for ZenTest-3.5.2...

Testing

# from the top-level Walrus source directory
autotest

TextMate

cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Bundles/RSpec.tmbundle
svn up

Output

No changes:

At revision 1925.

Rails

I have a Rails project where rspec is installed as a plug-in. The --force switch is necessary in order to install over the previously installed copy:

# from inside the Rails application top-level directory
script/plugin install --force svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/rspec/tags/REL_0_9_3/rspec
script/plugin install --force svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/rspec/tags/REL_0_9_3/rspec_on_rails

Changelog for 0.9.3

  • Fixed #10594 Failing Custom Matcher show NAME NOT GENERATED description
  • describe(SomeType, "#message") will not add a space: "SomeType#message" (likewise for '.')
  • describe(SomeType, "message") will have a decription with a space: "SomeType message"
  • Applied #10566 prepend_before and prepend_after callbacks
  • Applied #10567 Call setup and teardown using before and after callbacks

See also