rspec users - Jun 2010 - rspec-rails 2 webrat dependency

Hi, I''ve finally make all my tests pass in Rails 3 with Capybara.

After removing webrat''s dependency in favor of the new Capybara one, I 
expected that bundle install would remove Webrat dependencie.

After a few minutes searching for bundler bugs related to removing 
dependencies I''ve tried to uninstall webrat gem. Then I understood that
rspec-rails was depending on it...

Is there any reason for that? If so, couldn''t Rspec use Capybara
instead
of Webrat if it is not present? Is it possible to depend on Webrat OR 
Capybara in the gem specs?

Thank you all, specially David, for this wonderful piece of software 
that is Rspec!

Best regards,

Rodrigo.

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On Jun 19, 2010, at 12:07 PM, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas wrote:
> Hi, I''ve finally make all my tests pass in Rails 3 with Capybara.
> 
> After removing webrat''s dependency in favor of the new Capybara
one, I expected that bundle install would remove Webrat dependencie.
> 
> After a few minutes searching for bundler bugs related to removing
dependencies I''ve tried to uninstall webrat gem. Then I understood that
rspec-rails was depending on it...
> 
> Is there any reason for that? If so, couldn''t Rspec use Capybara
instead of Webrat if it is not present? Is it possible to depend on Webrat OR
Capybara in the gem specs?
> 
> Thank you all, specially David, for this wonderful piece of software that
is Rspec!
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Rodrigo.
There''s an open issue on this:
http://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails/issues#issue/49

Just a matter of prioritization, and this super low on my priority list. Patches
welcome.

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas
<lbocseg at yahoo.com.br> wrote:
> Is there any reason for that? If so, couldn''t Rspec use Capybara
instead of
> Webrat if it is not present? Is it possible to depend on Webrat OR Capybara
> in the gem specs?
Gemspecs don''t allow alternative dependencies.

I have a similar issue with the RiCal gem.  It works with either the
activesupport OR tzinfo gems, rather than require either I just
document that it requires one or the other and leave it up to the
user.

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Em 19-06-2010 16:12, Rick DeNatale escreveu:
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas
> <lbocseg at yahoo.com.br>  wrote:
>    
>> Is there any reason for that? If so, couldn''t Rspec use
Capybara instead of
>> Webrat if it is not present? Is it possible to depend on Webrat OR
Capybara
>> in the gem specs?
>>      
> Gemspecs don''t allow alternative dependencies.
>
> I have a similar issue with the RiCal gem.  It works with either the
> activesupport OR tzinfo gems, rather than require either I just
> document that it requires one or the other and leave it up to the
> user.
>    
Maybe Rspec should keep depending on Webrat instead for allowing easy 
installation until Gemspecs support alternative dependencies. It is not 
that bad for those using Capybara and maybe Capybara will merge to 
Webrat anyway...

Thank you for your information,

Rodrigo.
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