From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-01-29T03:06:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Running tests via rake. Plea for fix.


Tobias Luetke said:
> Currently when you are running tests with rake you will run in all sorts
> of problems with the 1.8.2 release.
>
> Usually rake will just freeze and eat up all the available resources
> in the system.
>
> The fix is documented here:
> http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/archives/2005/01/15/having-problems-running-tests-under-182/
>
> I had to apply this fix to 6 different computer now and its really getting
> old.
>
> I know that rake is not at fault here but its the main area of concern
> since rails relies on rake to run the unit tests.
>
> Can we add the fix to rake using open classes in the meantime?
>
> For everyone who makes it into the rails irc channel or onto the
> mailing list to ask what is amiss, 10 or more people just give up.

Sorry, I wasn't really aware there were continuing issues with rake and
rails testing.  I should be paying more attention!

So, is this an issue with using the testrb script to run the tests, or
something deeper?  I've been using testrb to run my unit tests in rake
with no problem ... is the problem specific to rails?

I see the patch, but it gives little information on the essence of the
problem.  I don't have time at the moment to dive deep into this problem,
but will make some time this evening.  Once a good fix is identified, we
can turn around an updated version of rake fairly quickly.

Feel free to email me off list with more details if needed.

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