[MacRuby-devel] Interesting spec failures

[Eloy Duran]

Het Laurent,

Ishare your sentiment with regards to mspec/rubyspec on à new  
implementation. However, we are now getting in à state where, unless  
à spec is weitten badly, it's actually à feature. Because there's  
actually à bug that's only discovered when running the spec together.

My 2 cents :)

Eloy

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On 12 okt 2009, at 21:22, Laurent Sansonetti <lsansonetti at apple.com>  
wrote:

> Hi Gp,
>
> Yes there are several environmental issues when running RubySpec.  
> For example I noticed that it will fail if you have a /tmp/xxx  
> directory or if your $HOME is actually a symlink.
>
> On Claudio's server I noticed a few more problems (you can see the  
> failures from the nightly build website, under Tests).
>
> One of my biggest issues with RubySpec is that it executes  
> everything within the same process, so one spec could potentially  
> damage the environment (because of a bug) so that another one might  
> not pass (but executing a spec separately would work).
>
> Laurent
>
> On Oct 12, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Giampiero De Ciantis wrote:
>
>> I have been trying to run the specs and have found some weird  
>> issues with some of the behaviour
>>
>> spec/frozen/core/kernel/spawn_spec.rb - in the "Kernel uses the  
>> current working directory as its working directory" it fails the  
>> test, but if you change the command line to use MacRuby instead of  
>> Ruby, it passes.
>>
>> spec/frozen/library/socket/ipsocket/getaddress_spec.rb - in the  
>> "Socket::IPSocket#getaddress raises an error on unknown hostnames."  
>> The spec fails, but if run the same test on macirb it raises the  
>> appropriate socket error on an unknown host name.
>>
>> Anyone know of environmental issues that might be causing this? I  
>> do 'rake clean' often and still get these errors.
>>
>>
>> I am also getting an error "cat: stdin: Bad file descriptor" on  
>> the /spec/frozen/core/io/close_read_spec.rb spec, but it still  
>> passes.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -Gp
>>
>>
>>
>>
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