rspec users - Nov 2008 - Cucumber autotest load error between 0.1.8 and 0.1.9

Hi,

I''m new to the list and to Cucumber (and RSpec and testing in general)
so I apologize if this has already come up. I searched the archive and
didn''t see anything.

Last week I installed Cucumber 0.1.8 for my Rails app and both
''cucumber features'' and ''rake features''
worked fine. Features and
steps were evaluated.

Today I upgraded Cucumber to 0.1.9 and tried to set up autotest. It
didn''t work.

Long story short, I installed the gems but didn''t put them in my
vendor/plugins directory (by choice). In 0.1.8, script/cucumber was
only looking in vendor/plugins. In 0.1.9, there''s a LoadError
exception rescue that defaults to the local gem if it can''t be found
in vendor/plugins.

0.1.8
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
load File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) +
"/../vendor/plugins/cucumber/bin/cucumber")

0.1.9
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
begin
  load File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) +
"/../vendor/plugins/cucumber/bin/cucumber")
rescue LoadError
  require "rubygems"
  load File.join(Gem.bindir, "cucumber")


I hope that helps somebody else.

Cheers,
Harry

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Harry Love <harry at harrylove.org>
wrote:
> Last week I installed Cucumber 0.1.8 for my Rails app and both
> ''cucumber features'' and ''rake features''
worked fine. Features and
> steps were evaluated.
>
> Today I upgraded Cucumber to 0.1.9 and tried to set up autotest. It
didn''t work.
>
> Long story short, I installed the gems but didn''t put them in my
> vendor/plugins directory (by choice). In 0.1.8, script/cucumber was
> only looking in vendor/plugins. In 0.1.9, there''s a LoadError
> exception rescue that defaults to the local gem if it can''t be
found
> in vendor/plugins.
Could you explain what doesn''t work when you run autotest?  Or, I
suppose, what it *does* do? :)

Also, does `script/cucumber features` work?

Peter

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Peter Jaros <peter.a.jaros at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Could you explain what doesn''t work when you run autotest?  Or, I
> suppose, what it *does* do? :)
>
> Also, does `script/cucumber features` work?
I originally ran ''script/generate cucumber'' under 0.1.8. The
script/cucumber executable created by that process looks in
vendor/plugins for the gem and doesn''t include the rescue from
LoadError if it''s not found.

Yesterday I upgraded to 0.1.9. I was not aware that I needed to re-run
''script/generate cucumber'' again for my app. Doing so solved
the
problem because it updated the script/cucumber executable which now
includes the rescue clause.

''script/cucumber features'' works now, as does autotest. Before
the
update I was running ''rake features'' and ''cucumber
features'' manually,
both of which point to the gem, so I never received an error.

I only noticed the problem when I tried to use autotest because it
calls script/cucumber which, until I regenerated the cucumber code,
only looked in vendor/plugins for the gem. So a LoadError exception
was being thrown.

Harry