On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:58 PM, David Chelimsky <dchelim...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:15 PM, aslak hellesoy > <aslak.helle...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:05 PM, David Chelimsky <dchelim...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Fernando Perez <li...@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 _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
