Comments on: Kickstart Rspec with Spork

By: Amit

Amit — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:17:47 +0000

Hello,
I have upgraded rspec-rails from 1.1.12 to 1.3.2.
I want to know how can i use fixtures using spork.
Also when i write “spork” command then it says something as “Running specs locally:
Spork is ready and listening on 8989!”
But when i open this port in browser then nothing is displayed.
Can you please explain me regarding this

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:08:40 +0000

Tim fixed the problem and released spork 0.7.4 this night. Thank you Thilo, thank you Tim.

By: Thilo Utke

Thilo Utke — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:12:53 +0000

Hi Martin,

I had a look at your problem, it really seem to be a load order problem, which might result from the way rspec tries to isolate view specs and spork caches your environment. Did you check the issue tracker at spork/rspec to see if somebody else has this problem?

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:06:18 +0000

I put an example of my problem here: http://github.com/JerryWho/test
The helper (in the example simple_helper.rb is loaded). See also my post here http://groups.google.com/group/sporkgem/browse_thread/thread/631f143d2c10277d
(unfortunately without any response yet ). It’s driving me mad. I guess it’s a simple mistake I made….

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:35:47 +0000

Hi,

I ran in a problem with spork: Using spork I get errors because my helpers in app/helpers/formular_helper.rb are not found.

Without spork everything’s fine. Do I have to load these helpers manually with spork?

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Martin

By: Thilo Utke

Thilo Utke — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:57:33 +0000

Thanks Tim, you are right. Corrected the post.

By: Tim Harper

Tim Harper — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:17:17 +0000

It appears that there is an error in this. On step 3, you instruct the user to run “spork –bootstrap”, when on step 2 you’ve already told them to boot strap the app.

I would recommend this:

2. Bootstrap your Rails app

cd /path/to/project/root
spork –bootstrap

This command adds some instructions and code to spec/spec_helper.rb. Basically two blocks, one to tell which code to preload and one to tell which to reload on every test run. Code outside these blocks is run at both times.

3. Edit spec/spec_helper.rb and follow the instructions

By: Lenart

Lenart — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:46:26 +0000

Latest version of Thinking Sphinx (1.2.12) still eager loads contents of app folder. I solved it by removing config.gem ‘thinking-sphinx’ from environment.rb and moved it in the production.rb and development.rb. To load it with spork, I did require ‘thinking_sphinx’ in the Spork.prefork.

Has anyone come to better solution?

By: Wahid

Wahid — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:57:56 +0000

Hi,

Does spork run on Windows?

Thansk!

By: thilo

thilo — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:56:00 +0000

Hi Jean-Michel, thx for pointing out the other tools. Will have a look. Rspactor generally does the same than mac-friendly-autotest . devver.net is a good idea, signed up for the beta.