[rspec-users] spec_distributed with rails

[David Chelimsky]

On 10/27/07, Scott Taylor <mailing_lists at railsnewbie.com> wrote:
>
> Is this the appropriate place to talk about spec_distributed?  If
> not, I'll post the spec-ext (seemingly dead) mailing list on
> rubyforge...
>
> I was able to run a non-rails project with
> Spec::Distributed::RindaSlaveRunner (and RindaMasterRunner).  But I'm
> stumped on how to do it with a rails project, when I have rspec trunk
> installed.  I continue to get wrong error arguments, like the following:
>
> escher: ruby -Ilib script/spec spec/models/* --require spec/
> distributed --runner Spec::Distributed::RindaSlaveRunner
> /Users/smt/src/web/urbis/trunk/vendor/plugins/rspec/lib/spec/runner/
> options.rb:74:in `run': wrong number of arguments (0 for 2)
> (ArgumentError)
>          from /Users/smt/src/web/urbis/trunk/vendor/plugins/rspec/lib/
> spec/runner/options.rb:74:in `run_examples'
>          from /Users/smt/src/web/urbis/trunk/vendor/plugins/rspec/lib/
> spec/runner/command_line.rb:22:in `run'
>          from script/spec:4
>
>
> Has anyone else used this?  Any tips? (Also, I've run script/generate
> rspec since the last revision)

I know Aslak has been using spec/distributed on a significant rails
project, so I'm sure it's workable. I haven't used it myself so I
can't offer you details. But it should work.