rspec users - Oct 2008 - Rails config.gem and rspec, rspec-rails

In #rspec the instructions for installing rspec and rspec-rails on a
Rails project. Specifically talking about the following line from
http://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec-rails/wikis/home

  config.gem "rspec-rails", :lib => "spec"

I think this should be updated to not instruct people to do this.
Rails config.gem will *load* all configured gems in all environments
which isn''t what I thikn people expect. Simply having people move
these config.gem statements into the appropriate environment file also
doesn''t work quite as expected (at least not with the rake tasks that
surround gem usage in Rails).

If folks use the gem versions I think the wiki should advise them to
run "gem unpack rspec rspec-rails" inside of vendor/gems.

Thoughts?

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Zach Dennis
http://www.continuousthinking.com
http://www.mutuallyhuman.com

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Zach Dennis <zach.dennis at gmail.com>
wrote:
> In #rspec the instructions for installing rspec and rspec-rails on a
> Rails project. Specifically talking about the following line from
> http://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec-rails/wikis/home
>
>  config.gem "rspec-rails", :lib => "spec"
>
> I think this should be updated to not instruct people to do this.
> Rails config.gem will *load* all configured gems in all environments
> which isn''t what I thikn people expect. Simply having people move
> these config.gem statements into the appropriate environment file also
> doesn''t work quite as expected (at least not with the rake tasks
that
> surround gem usage in Rails).
>
> If folks use the gem versions I think the wiki should advise them to
> run "gem unpack rspec rspec-rails" inside of vendor/gems.
Actually, I''ve just been using the gems without any reference to them
in the app configuration. Just ''gem install rspec-rails'',
''script/generate rspec'', and go.

So reflected on the wiki.

Thanks Zach,
David
>
> Thoughts?
>
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> http://www.mutuallyhuman.com
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Zach Dennis wrote:
> In #rspec the instructions for installing rspec and rspec-rails on a
> Rails project. Specifically talking about the following line from
> http://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec-rails/wikis/home
> 
>   config.gem "rspec-rails", :lib => "spec"
> 
> I think this should be updated to not instruct people to do this.
> Rails config.gem will *load* all configured gems in all environments
> which isn''t what I thikn people expect. Simply having people move
> these config.gem statements into the appropriate environment file also
> doesn''t work quite as expected (at least not with the rake tasks
that
> surround gem usage in Rails).
> 
> If folks use the gem versions I think the wiki should advise them to
> run "gem unpack rspec rspec-rails" inside of vendor/gems.
> 
Besides, I get this warning when that line in environment.rb

  irb: warn: can''t alias context from irb_context

I don''t understand the implications, only telling this because may be 
useful for someone.


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