rspec users - Jan 2009 - App can''t start on production server due to RSpec missing

Hi,

I just run in the following problem when starting a Rails app on my
production server:

  You have rspec rake tasks installed in
  /home/thomas/rails_apps/video_on_demand/lib/tasks/rspec.rake,
  but rspec can not be found in vendor/gems, vendor/plugins or on the
system.


Obviously I don''t want Rails to load anything related to rspec, how can
I tell Rails that it should not care about RSpec on the production
environment?

A quick fix is to install rspec and rspec-rails gems on production
server, but I don''t get why the app wants them installed.
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On Jan 16, 2009, at 2:38 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just run in the following problem when starting a Rails app on my
> production server:
>
>  You have rspec rake tasks installed in
>  /home/thomas/rails_apps/video_on_demand/lib/tasks/rspec.rake,
>  but rspec can not be found in vendor/gems, vendor/plugins or on the
> system.
>
>
> Obviously I don''t want Rails to load anything related to rspec,
how
> can
> I tell Rails that it should not care about RSpec on the production
> environment?
>
> A quick fix is to install rspec and rspec-rails gems on production
> server, but I don''t get why the app wants them installed.
I would delete that rake task file (lib/rspec.rake) if you don''t have  
rspec installed.

Scott

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Fernando Perez <lists at ruby-forum.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just run in the following problem when starting a Rails app on my
> production server:
>
>  You have rspec rake tasks installed in
>  /home/thomas/rails_apps/video_on_demand/lib/tasks/rspec.rake,
>  but rspec can not be found in vendor/gems, vendor/plugins or on the
> system.
>
>
> Obviously I don''t want Rails to load anything related to rspec,
how can
> I tell Rails that it should not care about RSpec on the production
> environment?
>
> A quick fix is to install rspec and rspec-rails gems on production
> server, but I don''t get why the app wants them installed.
This is a tricky business.

We put that in there in response to a user who works on a team. One
team member had pulled code and tried t run specs and got an error he
didn''t understand, so this is intended to help that developer know he
needs to install rspec.

So now this creates a new problem for you, which is that this means
you have to have rspec installed everywhere you want to run rake
tasks.

I''m open to suggestions for how to best solve for both cases if you
have any.

Cheers,
David
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On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Fernando Perez <lists at ruby-forum.com>
wrote:
>
> A quick fix is to install rspec and rspec-rails gems on production
> server, but I don''t get why the app wants them installed.
Because every Rake file in /lib gets loaded when you run Rake.  That''s
your dependency problem; not the app itself.


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> 
> I would delete that rake task file (lib/rspec.rake) if you don''t
have
> rspec installed.
> 
> Scott
I run rspec on my dev machine, but obviously not on my production 
machine, what would be the nicest way to handle such scenario? At the 
top of rspec.rake I could add a check on the environment, I could also 
not add this file to my repository but I could forget about this file in 
future clones of my repo, etc.

How did you solve this problem?
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On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:05 PM, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at
gmail.com>wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Fernando Perez <lists at
ruby-forum.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just run in the following problem when starting a Rails app on my
> > production server:
> >
> >  You have rspec rake tasks installed in
> >  /home/thomas/rails_apps/video_on_demand/lib/tasks/rspec.rake,
> >  but rspec can not be found in vendor/gems, vendor/plugins or on the
> > system.
> >
> >
> > Obviously I don''t want Rails to load anything related to
rspec, how can
> > I tell Rails that it should not care about RSpec on the production
> > environment?
> >
> > A quick fix is to install rspec and rspec-rails gems on production
> > server, but I don''t get why the app wants them installed.
>
> This is a tricky business.
>
> We put that in there in response to a user who works on a team. One
> team member had pulled code and tried t run specs and got an error he
> didn''t understand, so this is intended to help that developer know
he
> needs to install rspec.
>
> So now this creates a new problem for you, which is that this means
> you have to have rspec installed everywhere you want to run rake
> tasks.
>
> I''m open to suggestions for how to best solve for both cases if
you have
> any.
>
Make it print the message to STDERR instead of raising an error? Plus add a
blurb like "You can ignore this warning if you didn''t intend to
run specs"

Aslak

>
> Cheers,
> David
>
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On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:15 PM, aslak hellesoy
<aslak.hellesoy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:05 PM, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at
gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Fernando Perez <lists at
ruby-forum.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I just run in the following problem when starting a Rails app on
my
>> > production server:
>> >
>> >  You have rspec rake tasks installed in
>> >  /home/thomas/rails_apps/video_on_demand/lib/tasks/rspec.rake,
>> >  but rspec can not be found in vendor/gems, vendor/plugins or on
the
>> > system.
>> >
>> >
>> > Obviously I don''t want Rails to load anything related to
rspec, how can
>> > I tell Rails that it should not care about RSpec on the production
>> > environment?
>> >
>> > A quick fix is to install rspec and rspec-rails gems on production
>> > server, but I don''t get why the app wants them installed.
>>
>> This is a tricky business.
>>
>> We put that in there in response to a user who works on a team. One
>> team member had pulled code and tried t run specs and got an error he
>> didn''t understand, so this is intended to help that developer
know he
>> needs to install rspec.
>>
>> So now this creates a new problem for you, which is that this means
>> you have to have rspec installed everywhere you want to run rake
>> tasks.
>>
>> I''m open to suggestions for how to best solve for both cases
if you have
>> any.
>
> Make it print the message to STDERR instead of raising an error? Plus add a
> blurb like "You can ignore this warning if you didn''t intend
to run specs"
Sounds good- any objections?

>
> Aslak
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> David
>>
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>
>
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>
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On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Fernando Perez <lists at
ruby-forum.com>wrote:
>
> I run rspec on my dev machine, but obviously not on my production
> machine, what would be the nicest way to handle such scenario? At the
> top of rspec.rake I could add a check on the environment

That would get my vote.

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On Jan 16, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:
>>
>> I would delete that rake task file (lib/rspec.rake) if you
don''t have
>> rspec installed.
>>
>> Scott
>
> I run rspec on my dev machine, but obviously not on my production
> machine, what would be the nicest way to handle such scenario? At the
> top of rspec.rake I could add a check on the environment, I could also
> not add this file to my repository but I could forget about this  
> file in
> future clones of my repo, etc.
I''d most certainly add it to the repos in the form of a plugin.

What exactly are you worried about?  The memory overhead of loading  
the rspec code? (I''m not sure exactly how rails works here - does it  
simply rspec/lib/ to the $LOAD_PATH?  Does it require lib/spec.rb?)

Obviously if your production code is explicitly calling rspec, you''ve  
got bigger problems.

Scott

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Mark Wilden <mark at mwilden.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Fernando Perez <lists at
ruby-forum.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I run rspec on my dev machine, but obviously not on my production
>> machine, what would be the nicest way to handle such scenario? At the
>> top of rspec.rake I could add a check on the environment
>
> That would get my vote.
Unless I"m missing something, that would require this on the CLI:

  RAILS_ENV=test rake spec

Therefore, this would not get my vote :)
>
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On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:58 PM, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:15 PM, aslak hellesoy
> <aslak.hellesoy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:05 PM, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at
gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Fernando Perez <lists at
ruby-forum.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > I just run in the following problem when starting a Rails app
on my
>>> > production server:
>>> >
>>> >  You have rspec rake tasks installed in
>>> >  /home/thomas/rails_apps/video_on_demand/lib/tasks/rspec.rake,
>>> >  but rspec can not be found in vendor/gems, vendor/plugins or
on the
>>> > system.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Obviously I don''t want Rails to load anything related
to rspec, how can
>>> > I tell Rails that it should not care about RSpec on the
production
>>> > environment?
>>> >
>>> > A quick fix is to install rspec and rspec-rails gems on
production
>>> > server, but I don''t get why the app wants them
installed.
>>>
>>> This is a tricky business.
>>>
>>> We put that in there in response to a user who works on a team. One
>>> team member had pulled code and tried t run specs and got an error
he
>>> didn''t understand, so this is intended to help that
developer know he
>>> needs to install rspec.
>>>
>>> So now this creates a new problem for you, which is that this means
>>> you have to have rspec installed everywhere you want to run rake
>>> tasks.
>>>
>>> I''m open to suggestions for how to best solve for both
cases if you have
>>> any.
>>
>> Make it print the message to STDERR instead of raising an error? Plus
add a
>> blurb like "You can ignore this warning if you didn''t
intend to run specs"
>
> Sounds good- any objections?
That''s what I do in all of my projects...require
''spec'', rescue
LoadError and print a helpful message.

Pat

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:19 PM, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at
gmail.com>wrote:
> >>
> >> I run rspec on my dev machine, but obviously not on my production
> >> machine, what would be the nicest way to handle such scenario? At
the
> >> top of rspec.rake I could add a check on the environment
> >
> > That would get my vote.
>
> Unless I"m missing something, that would require this on the CLI:
>
>  RAILS_ENV=test rake spec
>
> Therefore, this would not get my vote :)
>
Because the rake tasks get loaded before the spec task has a chance to set
RAILS_ENV. But the rakefile wouldn''t check RAILS_ENV=test, but
RAILS_ENV=production (or staging). And wouldn''t it be set that way
before
rake loads its files? (I''m gonna learn something here, whether I want
to or
not!)

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If your using capistrano you could delete this file when deploying.

2009/1/16 Scott Taylor <scott at railsnewbie.com>
>
> On Jan 16, 2009, at 2:38 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>>
>> I just run in the following problem when starting a Rails app on my
>> production server:
>>
>>  You have rspec rake tasks installed in
>>  /home/thomas/rails_apps/video_on_demand/lib/tasks/rspec.rake,
>>  but rspec can not be found in vendor/gems, vendor/plugins or on the
>> system.
>>
>>
>> Obviously I don''t want Rails to load anything related to
rspec, how can
>> I tell Rails that it should not care about RSpec on the production
>> environment?
>>
>> A quick fix is to install rspec and rspec-rails gems on production
>> server, but I don''t get why the app wants them installed.
>>
>
> I would delete that rake task file (lib/rspec.rake) if you don''t
have rspec
> installed.
>
> Scott
>
>
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> Make it print the message to STDERR instead of raising an error? Plus 
> add a
> blurb like "You can ignore this warning if you didn''t intend
to run
> specs"
> 
> Aslak
I like that too, +1 for me.
> Obviously if your production code is explicitly calling rspec,
you''ve
> got bigger problems.
As Stephen said, it''s because rspec.rake located under the lib folder
is
trying to load rspec (gem or plugin) without looking at the rails 
environment.
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On Jan 16, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:
> I run rspec on my dev machine, but obviously not on my production
> machine, what would be the nicest way to handle such scenario? At the
Actually, I run specs on my production machine,
   cap deploy:spec
:)
since its a different platform from my development,
especially on point releases of the app

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Jonathan Linowes
<jonathan at parkerhill.com>wrote:
>
> On Jan 16, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:
>
>  I run rspec on my dev machine, but obviously not on my production
>> machine, what would be the nicest way to handle such scenario? At the
>>
>
> Actually, I run specs on my production machine,
>  cap deploy:spec
> :)
> since its a different platform from my development,
> especially on point releases of the app

Umm, how do you handle that whole rake db:test:prepare thing?

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On Jan 17, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Mark Wilden wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Jonathan Linowes  
> <jonathan at parkerhill.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 16, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:
>
> I run rspec on my dev machine, but obviously not on my production
> machine, what would be the nicest way to handle such scenario? At the
>
> Actually, I run specs on my production machine,
>  cap deploy:spec
> :)
> since its a different platform from my development,
> especially on point releases of the app
>
> Umm, how do you handle that whole rake db:test:prepare thing?
>
> ///ark
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I copy the schema from production, the server doesnt have a  
development database.
also, my opts default to --format html so i can browse to the results
 From my Capfile

   task :spec, :roles => :app do
     run "cd #{current_path} && rake db:test:prepare  
RAILS_ENV=production" # copy schema from production rather than  
development
     run "cd #{current_path} && rake spec RAILS_ENV=production  
 >public/private/specs.html"
   end

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Andrew Premdas wrote:
> If your using capistrano you could delete this file when deploying.
Or just not version control it:

git rm -rf --cached lib/tasks/rspec.rake
echo "lib/tasks/rspec.rake" >> .gitignore

Scott
>
> 2009/1/16 Scott Taylor <scott at railsnewbie.com 
> <mailto:scott at railsnewbie.com>>
>
>
>     On Jan 16, 2009, at 2:38 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         I just run in the following problem when starting a Rails app
>         on my
>         production server:
>
>          You have rspec rake tasks installed in
>          /home/thomas/rails_apps/video_on_demand/lib/tasks/rspec.rake,
>          but rspec can not be found in vendor/gems, vendor/plugins or
>         on the
>         system.
>
>
>         Obviously I don''t want Rails to load anything related to
>         rspec, how can
>         I tell Rails that it should not care about RSpec on the production
>         environment?
>
>         A quick fix is to install rspec and rspec-rails gems on production
>         server, but I don''t get why the app wants them installed.
>
>
>     I would delete that rake task file (lib/rspec.rake) if you
don''t
>     have rspec installed.
>
>     Scott
>
>
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>> A quick fix is to install rspec and rspec-rails gems on production
>> server, but I don''t get why the app wants them installed.
> 
> This is a tricky business.
> 
> We put that in there in response to a user who works on a team. One
> team member had pulled code and tried t run specs and got an error he
> didn''t understand, so this is intended to help that developer know
he
> needs to install rspec.
> 
> So now this creates a new problem for you, which is that this means
> you have to have rspec installed everywhere you want to run rake
> tasks.
I haven''t followed the ML latety, but it seems that now I
don''t have to
install rspec and its friends on the production server anymore.
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