Question

I asked this question on the rspec mailing list but didn’t get a response, so I thought I’d try here.

Using rspec 1.3.2 and rspec-rails 1.3.4 with rails 2.3.11 on ruby 1.9.2-p180, when I

$ rake spec:models

they all pass. When I

$ rake spec:controllers

they all pass. When I

$ rake spec:views

they all pass. But when I

$ rake spec

I get


<path to gem>/activesupport-2.3.11/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:177: stack level too deep (SystemStackError)


I’ve been tinkering around with the rake file, and when I change


t.spec_files = FileList['spec/**/*_spec.rb']


in the default task to hit just one of the subdirectories, such as


t.spec_files = FileList['spec/models/**/*_spec.rb']


then rake spec works. I’ve done this for models, controllers, and views, and rake spec works fine for each. But including all of them like


t.spec_files = FileList['spec/models/**/*_spec.rb', 'spec/controllers/**/*_spec.rb', 'spec/views/**/*_spec.rb']


does not work (same error as mentioned above). Ironically, including just models and views does work:


t.spec_files = FileList['spec/models/**/*_spec.rb', 'spec/views/**/*_spec.rb']


but it seems that any combination including controllers will fail. This is odd to me since rake spec:controllers works. Unless it has something to do with the number of files and/or examples. The number of files and examples for each spec type is

models:      25 files, 391 examples
controllers: 26 files, 973 examples
views:       52 files, 508 examples

Using just rake spec did work on Ruby 1.8.7(-p302) and Ruby 1.9.1(-p243).

Does anyone have any ideas? I can run each group individually (and even create an alias to do it all at once), but then rspec has to spin up the app 3 times. Besides, that doesn’t address why this isn’t working on ruby 1.9.2.

Answer 1

I can’t explain why, but when I remove

--loadby mtime
--reverse

from spec/spec.opts, rake spec works again. It might have something to do with this thread [1], but I don’t know.

Peace.

[1] http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/1151108