From: Yogi <yogi.kulkarni@...>
Date: 2004-12-30T14:45:08+09:00
Subject: Re: unusual rake behaviour

Dave, thanks! that fixes the problem for now. 


On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:09:54 +0900, Dave Halliday <davehal02@halliday.ca> wrote:
> Here's a patch for Rake that provides a workaround for the 1.8.2
> Test::Unit behavior.  The patch is based on rake/testtask.rb from Rake
> 0.4.13.
> 
> 81a82
>  >         name_hack = "$0=\"#{@name}\""
> 83c84
> <         ruby %{-I#{lib_path} -e0
> #{SEP}#{required_files}#{option_list}}
> ---
>  >         ruby %{-I#{lib_path} -e'#{name_hack}'
> #{SEP}#{required_files}#{option_list}}
> 
> It overrides $0 with the name of the Rake test target, so that
> Test::Unit never sees the '-e' that was causing problems.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave
> 
> On Dec 29, 2004, at 8:55 PM, Dave Halliday wrote:
> 
> > I checked CVS.  There is a recent (Dec. 19) change made by Nobu to
> > test/unit.rb that was part of the 1.8.2 release.
> >
> > The code for auto-running the tests was changed from:
> >
> > Test::Unit::AutoRunner.run($0)
> >
> > to:
> >
> > Test::Unit::AutoRunner.run($0 != "-e" && $0)
> >
> > Reverting this change will get Rake::TestTask working again, but I'm
> > not sure what else will break as a consequence.  The change was likely
> > trying to fix some other problem.  The CVS checkin comment doesn't say
> > why it was changed.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > On Dec 29, 2004, at 4:28 PM, Jim Weirich wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Jim Weirich said:
> >>
> >> Someone just informed me that in 1.8.2 test/unit does not work with
> >> the
> >> ruby -e0 -rtestfile technique that Rake is using to load the unit
> >> tests.
> >> I haven't been able to verify this.  I'm not running 1.8.2 yet, so I
> >> am
> >> not able to validate this.
> >>
> >> Nathaniel ... is this intentional?  What's the story?
> >>
> >> --
> >> -- Jim Weirich     jim@weirichhouse.org    http://onestepback.org
> >> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> >> "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
> >> not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> 
> 


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- Yogi
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