[rspec-users] Observed models cause failures with DRBSpec ?

[Francois Beausoleil]

Hi all !

I don't believe I am the only one using model observers, right ?
Well, here's a nice one:

$ drbspec spec

.

Finished in 0.125322 seconds

1 specification, 0 failures
$ drbspec spec

F

1)
'A user with an inactive and an active project should be able to
return active projects only' FAILED
[] should == [#<Spec::Mocks::Mock:0xb75590bc @name="active", @options={}>]
./spec/models/user_spec.rb:11:
script/rails_spec_server:17:in `run'
script/rails_spec_server:38:

Finished in 0.024455 seconds

1 specification, 1 failure



# spec/models/user_spec.rb
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../spec_helper"

context "A user with an inactive and an active project" do
  setup do
    @user = User.new
  end

  specify "should be able to return active projects only" do
    @active = mock("active")
    Project.stub!(:active).and_return([@active])
    @user.active_projects.should == [@active]
  end
end


# app/models/user.rb
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :projects, :foreign_key => "owner_id", :order => "projects.title"

  def active_projects(force=false)
    @active_projects = nil if force
    @active_projects ||= self.projects.active
  end
end

The observer is loaded in config/environment.rb like this:
Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
  config.active_record.observers = :user_observer
end

There's nothing very interesting about this, except that if I comment
the user observer in the configuration, I can run drbspec spec
multiple times in a row without failures.  If I add the observer, I
can run drbspec without failures once, then I get failures like the
one above for ever after.

Can anyone confirm / deny this behavior ?

Thanks !
-- 
François Beausoleil
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