From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-05-08T19:13:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Is rcov stable? (was Re: rcov segmentation faults

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Stephen Anderson wrote:
| Good point.  I'm trying to run them, but am encountering problems.
| First I was hitting "WIN32 has been removed, use CURRENT instead".
| Now I'm running into missing the
| /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rcov-0.8.1.2.0/test/expected_coverage
| directory.
|
| Is it common for gems installed with "sudo gem install <gem name>" to
| not be installed in a way that allows running their tests?  Am I
| overlooking something?

Not on the OSes I have used. None of those are Mac OS, though.

| This is what confuses and concerns me.  I have yet to see any of these
| errors when not running rcov.

Well, RCov does a bit of introspection. This is probably memory
intensive for a Rails app especially, and coupled with the slics being
virtual machines, that could result in segfaults.

| Those slices aren't production.  I was hoping to keep a history of test
| results and test coverage visible from anywhere, and not limited to when
| a particular developer happens to be running their laptop.

Put them into source control? It's only HTML files, after all.

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