[rspec-users] RSpec-rails 1.2.2: autospec passes but "rake spec" fails

[Matt Wynne]

On 30 Mar 2009, at 13:23, David Chelimsky wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Matt Wynne <matt at mattwynne.net>  
> wrote:
>>
>> On 29 Mar 2009, at 20:18, Stephen Eley wrote:
>>
>>> # This line ensures that RSpec will run in the 'test' environment
>>> # regardless of defaults set by other tools.  If you have reasons  
>>> to run
>>> # specs in other environments, you can allow this value to be  
>>> overridden
>>> # by changing the line to:
>>> #
>>> # ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= 'test'
>>
>>
>> Just to explain: I think it was me who asked for this, though the  
>> change
>> wasn't in generated code, it was in a file in rspec-rails that gets  
>> run when
>> you require 'spec/rails'. We use a 'features' environment for  
>> running our
>> features (so we can run them in parallel with specs) and it was  
>> causing some
>> weird behaviour as the constant was changing under our feet as the  
>> features
>> (which use some rspec-rails matchers) were run.
>
> What was the code doing to make the rspec-rails matchers available?

require 'spec/rails'

> There's no reason you'd need to load 'spec/spec_helper.rb' to do that.

Maybe I'm getting two things mixed up, but I thought the change we  
were talking about here was this commit: http://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec-rails/commit/d6af98c1ffd992d81723fba70f5da9fbbb9e0a58

I didn't realise that the generated spec/spec_helper.rb file was also  
going something similar.

Matt Wynne
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