[rspec-users] spec_helper getting reloaded after specs run under Textmate/Spork

[Ben Mabey]

David Chelimsky wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Elliot Winkler 
> <elliot.winkler at gmail.com <mailto:elliot.winkler at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'm having the hardest time trying to figure out something weird
>     I've suddenly run into. So I'm using Spork to run my specs.
>     Naturally I've got TM_RSPEC_OPTS in Textmate set to --drb and I'm
>     running `spork` from the command line to fire up the Spork server.
>     However, if I have a spec file open in Textmate and I press
>     Command-R, then the specs in the file get executed twice. I did a
>     quick test by having spec_helper print out something at the bottom
>     of the file and then wrote up a quick one-example spec file. When
>     I ran it, I saw the spinner spin, the debug line got printed to
>     the window, the output from the specs appeared, and then the
>     spinner spun some more and the debug line appeared again (but a
>     duplicate set of specs didn't appear because I think RSpec's smart
>     about not re-running tests). So it definitely looks like
>     spec_helper is getting loaded again, after all the specs are run.
>     (I know spec_helper should be run twice, once during preloading,
>     once during execution. But not again, AFTER execution.)
>
>     At first I thought it might be only specific to my project, but I
>     tried creating a fresh Rails project, installing RSpec into it,
>     and creating and running a quick spec file, but the same thing
>     happened -- spec_helper seems to get loaded again. I also tried
>     wiping and reinstalling the rspec, rspec-rails, and spork gems,
>     but that didn't work either.
>
>     Just to emphasize, this is only when Spork is running. If I leave
>     TM_RSPEC_OPTS at --drb but fail to leave the Spork server open,
>     the specs only get run once as they should.
>
>     Also, this is only for Textmate -- I've got --drb in my spec.opts
>     and `rake spec` works just fine when Spork is running.
>
>     So I really don't know who the culprit is: Spork, RSpec bundle, or
>     maybe it's just me. I noticed in Lighthouse a few people have had
>     this same problem, but those were a while back and anyway this
>     seems to be different.
>
>     David, can you think of a reason why something like this would be
>     happening? Exit status maybe? Or maybe this is more of a Spork
>     question.
>
>
> Sounds like a spork question to me :) I was able to duplicate your 
> experience, but I don't have any initial thoughts about why this would 
> be happening.


Hmm.. I can't think of why this would happen either.  Tim Harper is a 
textmate user so if you post this question to the spork mailing list he 
could probably help you.  (Spork ML: 
http://groups.google.com/group/sporkgem)

-Ben