[rspec-users] Cucumber ENV setting in env.rb

[James Byrne]

Josh Chisholm wrote:
> We are setting environment variables in our Rakefile. We have various
> tasks that set up environment variables, then call the cucumber task.
> That's working for us under windows.

Yes that makes sense. Referring to the Pickaxe book one reads that:

"A Ruby program may write to the ENV object, which on most systems 
changes the values of the corresponding environment variables. However, 
this change is local to the process that makes it and to any 
subsequently spawned child processes. This inheritance of environment 
variables is illustrated in the code that follows. A subprocess changes 
an environment variable and this change is seen in a process that it 
then starts. However, the change is not visible to the original parent. 
(This just goes to prove that parents never really know what their 
children are doing.)"

This does seem to indicate that the ENV setting made in in env.rb is 
visible to the cucumber process.  The inference that I draw from this is 
that env.rb is processed after the ENV setting for "CUCUMBER_COLORS" has 
already been used by cucumber and thus has no further effect on its 
behaviour.
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