rspec users - Jun 2008 - rcov causing a segmentation fault on rspec 1.1.4 and rails 2.1

Hello again :)

I''m trying to run rcov on my specs here but i''m getting a lot
of
segmentation faults (and they usually happen at different places):

/home/mauricio/NetBeansProjects/reeds/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb:211:
[BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24) [i486-linux]

/home/mauricio/NetBeansProjects/reeds/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/module/introspection.rb:60:
[BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24) [i486-linux]

Is there any way to fix this?

I''m using rspec 1.1.4, rcov 0.8.1.2.0, rails 2.1 and Ubuntu Linux 8.4.

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On Jun 7, 2008, at 12:11 PM, Maur?cio Linhares wrote:
> Hello again :)
>
> I''m trying to run rcov on my specs here but i''m getting a
lot of
> segmentation faults (and they usually happen at different places):
>
> /home/mauricio/NetBeansProjects/reeds/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/ 
> active_record/attribute_methods.rb:211:
> [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24) [i486-linux]
>
> /home/mauricio/NetBeansProjects/reeds/vendor/rails/activerecord/ 
> lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/module/ 
> introspection.rb:60:
> [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24) [i486-linux]
>
> Is there any way to fix this?
This has come up a few times before: http://rubyurl.com/i2jV

Cheers,
David
>
>
> I''m using rspec 1.1.4, rcov 0.8.1.2.0, rails 2.1 and Ubuntu Linux
8.4.
>
> -- 
> Maur?cio Linhares
> http://alinhavado.wordpress.com/ (pt-br) | http:// 
> blog.codevader.com/ (en)
> Jo?o Pessoa, PB, +55 83 8867-7208
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On Jun 7, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Maur?cio Linhares wrote:
> Hello again :)
>
> I''m trying to run rcov on my specs here but i''m getting a
lot of
> segmentation faults (and they usually happen at different places):
>
> /home/mauricio/NetBeansProjects/reeds/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/ 
> active_record/attribute_methods.rb:211:
> [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24) [i486-linux]
>
> /home/mauricio/NetBeansProjects/reeds/vendor/rails/activerecord/ 
> lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/module/ 
> introspection.rb:60:
> [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24) [i486-linux]
>
> Is there any way to fix this?
I''m not sure about this, but I can tell you *my* one run in with rcov  
seg-faulting (maybe it will be of some use):

While testing FixtureReplacement, I decided to swap out Kernel#require  
for my specs.  I didn''t see any other option: My init.rb explicitly  
required a "db/example_data" file, and since I was testing it outside
of a rails project there was no way to access a file which was outside  
of vendor/plugins/fixture_replacement.  I tried the typical pattern of  
aliasing require, and overriding it, calling it only when the file  
didn''t match "db/example_data.rb".  At the time, the specs
ran just
fine.  Much to my surpise, rcov segfaulted.  I had to resort to the  
technique described on this page to get it to work:
http://blog.jayfields.com/2006/12/ruby-alias-method-alternative.html

I still don''t know why this happened.  My guess is that between rcov  
and rubygems, both of which probably swap out require, someone wasn''t  
playing nice.  Or, come to think of it, maybe it was me!

General advice: I''d bet you could run the debugger (ruby-debug) on it,
and see where it craps out...

Scott


>
>
> I''m using rspec 1.1.4, rcov 0.8.1.2.0, rails 2.1 and Ubuntu Linux
8.4.
>
> -- 
> Maur?cio Linhares
> http://alinhavado.wordpress.com/ (pt-br) | http:// 
> blog.codevader.com/ (en)
> Jo?o Pessoa, PB, +55 83 8867-7208
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