ActiveSupport::Dependencies and rspec 3

Ruby on Rails
1

Does anybody have any idea why ActiveSupport:: dependencies would be loading my spec file when I upgraded from RSpec 2.99 to 3.0.beta? Here’s the stack trace of where it does this and down below is the stack trace from when I tried to recreate the problem with a brand new project. Since I was not able to reproduce the problem in a brand new project, I’m a bit stuck. Any advice on how to debug this is greatly appreciated. The only clue I have is that Dependencies is loading the spec file before the rspec file, per the stack traces.

Am I right to suspect that there’s something odd with Dependencies loading the spec file?

BROKEN with production project

/Users/justin/j/blink/bpos/spec/controllers/images_controller_spec.rb:12:in `block in <top (required)>': undefined local variable or method `render_views' for RSpec::ExampleGroups::ImagesController_2:Class (NameError)
	from /Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/rspec-core-3.0.0.beta2/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:323:in `module_eval'
	from /Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/rspec-core-3.0.0.beta2/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:323:in `subclass'
	from /Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/rspec-core-3.0.0.beta2/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:287:in `example_group'
	from /Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/rspec-core-3.0.0.beta2/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:169:in `block in alias_example_group_to'
	from /Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/rspec-core-3.0.0.beta2/lib/rspec/core/dsl.rb:40:in `block in expose_example_group_alias'
	from /Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/rspec-core-3.0.0.beta2/lib/rspec/core/dsl.rb:74:in `block (2 levels) in expose_example_group_alias_globally'
	from /Users/justin/j/blink/bpos/spec/controllers/images_controller_spec.rb:6:in `<top (required)>'
	from /Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/activesupport-4.0.3/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:223:in `load'
	from /Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/activesupport-4.0.3/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:223:in `block in load'
	from /Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/activesupport-4.0.3/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:214:in `load_dependency'
	from /Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/activesupport-4.0.3/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:223:in `load'
	from /Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/rspec-core-3.0.0.beta2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:932:in `block in load_spec_files'
	from /Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/rspec-core-3.0.0.beta2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:932:in `each'
	from /Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/rspec-core-3.0.0.beta2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:932:in `load_spec_files'
	from /Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/rspec-core-3.0.0.beta2/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:21:in `run'
	from /Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/rspec-core-3.0.0.beta2/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:100:in `run'
	from /Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/rspec-core-3.0.0.beta2/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:31:in `invoke'
	from /Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/rspec-core-3.0.0.beta2/exe/rspec:4:in `<top (required)>'
	from /Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/bin/rspec:23:in `load'
	from /Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/bin/rspec:23:in `<main>'
	from /Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:15:in `eval'
	from /Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:15:in `<main>'

Stack trace from where render_views is called on a the brand new project

/Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/rspec-core-3.0.0.beta2/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:323:in `module_eval'
/Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/rspec-core-3.0.0.beta2/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:323:in `subclass'
/Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/rspec-core-3.0.0.beta2/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:287:in `example_group'
/Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/rspec-core-3.0.0.beta2/lib/rspec/core/example_group.rb:169:in `block in alias_example_group_to'
/Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/rspec-core-3.0.0.beta2/lib/rspec/core/dsl.rb:40:in `block in expose_example_group_alias'
/Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/rspec-core-3.0.0.beta2/lib/rspec/core/dsl.rb:74:in `block (2 levels) in expose_example_group_alias_globally'
/Users/justin/j/blink/rspec_test/spec/controllers/users_controller_spec.rb:21:in `<top (required)>'
/Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/rspec-core-3.0.0.beta2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:934:in `load'
/Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/rspec-core-3.0.0.beta2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:934:in `block in load_spec_files'
/Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/rspec-core-3.0.0.beta2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:932:in `each'
/Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/rspec-core-3.0.0.beta2/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:932:in `load_spec_files'
/Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/rspec-core-3.0.0.beta2/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:21:in `run'
/Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/rspec-core-3.0.0.beta2/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:100:in `run'
/Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/rspec-core-3.0.0.beta2/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:31:in `invoke'
/Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/gems/rspec-core-3.0.0.beta2/exe/rspec:4:in `<top (required)>'
/Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/bin/rspec:23:in `load'
/Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/bin/rspec:23:in `<main>'
/Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:15:in `eval'
/Users/justin/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p353@rails4/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:15:in `<main>'
2

Might I suggest asking asking the RSpec developers directly?

This sort of weirdness is to be expected when using beta gems. Is there any particular reason you’ve decided to upgrade?

3

Can you paste your Gemfile or a link to a private Gist?

4

Here’s the gemfile.

If I change from

  gem "rspec-rails", "~> 2.99.0.beta2"
  #gem 'rspec-rails', '~> 3.0.0.beta'

Full gem file:

source "https://rubygems.org"
ruby "2.0.0"

# http://soupmatt.com/fixing-bundlewithout-on-heroku-cedar
# Hack to make heroku work. Works b/c on heroku, the ENV['HOME'] will be 'app'
                # and this will then return test, which heroku knows to exclude
def hg(g)
  (ENV['HOME'].gsub('/', '') == 'app' ? 'test' : g)
end


group :development, :guard_server do
  gem "annotate" # , " ~> 2.4.1.beta1"
                 # gntp requires that growl be installed
                 # Having issues with Mac and gntp
  gem 'ruby_gntp'
                 #gem 'growl'
                 # Note -- guard with spork is conflicting with rubymine debugger
                 # Rule of thumb is that you can run guard, until you want to go in the debugger.
                 # In that case, quit guard, start server or spec with debugger.
                 # Be sure to start guard as "bundle exec guard"
                 # Before starting guard, run Growl for Linux with command "gol"
                 # or on Macs: http://growl.info/
  gem 'guard-rspec'
  gem 'guard-rails'
  gem 'guard-resque'
  gem 'guard-unicorn'
  gem 'guard-bundler'
  gem 'rb-fsevent'
  # tried guard for resque-scheduler, but did not work as of 11/21/2012
  # run as rake resque:scheduler instead
  #gem 'guard-resque-scheduler'
  gem 'guard-livereload'
  # heroku_san is when we're ready to have a staging server at heroku
  # gem 'heroku_san'

  gem 'better_errors'
  gem 'binding_of_caller'
  gem 'meta_request'

  gem 'pry-doc'
  gem "pry"
  gem 'pry-rails'

  gem 'coffee-rails-source-maps'
  gem 'quiet_assets'
end
gem 'thin', group: [:development, :test, :ci, :guard_server]
gem 'awesome_print'
gem "mobile-fu"
gem 'rails', "~>4"

gem 'draper'
gem 'cancan'
gem 'roadie' # html email
gem 'phone'
gem 'stripe'
gem 'redis'
gem 'resque', :require => "resque/server"
gem 'resque-scheduler', :require => ['resque_scheduler', 'resque_scheduler/server']
gem 'resque_mailer'

# this would remove the resque helpers warning message:
gem 'resque-retry', github: 'teeparham/resque-retry'
# But not doing this in expectation that this will be merged
#gem 'resque-retry'

gem 'haml-rails'

# Time of day support
gem 'tod'

gem 'holidays'

# Easily send vars to javascript
gem 'gon'

# AMQP queue support
gem "bunny"

gem 'devise'
gem 'devise-async'
gem "omniauth-facebook", "~> 1.4.1"

gem 'fb_graph'

gem "to_slug"

gem 'pg'

gem 'rack-cache'
gem 'kgio'
gem "dalli", "~> 2"
gem 'memcachier'


group :production do
  gem 'unicorn'
  gem 'newrelic_rpm'
  gem 'google-analytics-rails'
  gem 'rails_12factor'
  gem 'heroku-deflater'
  gem 'unicorn-worker-killer'
  gem 'resque-heroku', github: 'simple10/resque-heroku'
end


gem 'exception_notification'
#gem 'better_logging' # improves the log format, and adds an optional “Exception” parameter to the warn() and error() methods to print a stack trace automatically
gem "lograge"

gem 'browser_details'
gem 'simple_form'
gem 'handlebars_assets'

# Gems used only for assets and not required
# in production environments by default.
gem 'coffee-rails'
gem 'uglifier'

gem "sprockets", "~> 2"

# http://blog.firmhouse.com/complete-guide-to-serving-your-rails-assets-over-s3-with-asset_sync
gem "asset_sync"

# Temp trying this due to issues at rubygems
gem "breadcrumbs_on_rails" # , :git => "git://github.com/weppos/breadcrumbs_on_rails.git"
# Need to move outside of assets group to enable for development mode
#gem 'sass', require: 'sass'
gem "compass-rails"
gem 'oily_png'

gem "font-awesome-sass-rails"

gem 'sass-rails', '>= 3.2' # sass-rails needs to be higher than 3.2
gem 'bootstrap-sass', '~> 3.0.3.0'

gem 'jquery-rails-cdn'
gem 'jquery-migrate-rails'
gem 'jquery-ui-rails'

gem "datejs-rails"

gem 'sendgrid' # for mailing, see https://github.com/stephenb/sendgrid


gem "daemons"

gem 'gravatar_image_tag'
gem "faker"

gem 'kaminari'

gem 'rails_admin'


# Use unicorn as the web server
# gem 'unicorn'

# Deploy with Capistrano
# gem 'capistrano'

gem 'jbuilder'

gem 'aws-sdk'

group :test, hg(:ci) do
  gem 'simplecov', require: false
  gem 'database_cleaner'
  gem 'turn', require: false
  gem "factory_girl_rails"
  gem 'launchy' # this lets us call save_and_open_page to see what's on a page for debugging capybara tests
                #gem 'capybara', :git => 'https://github.com/DouweM/capybara.git', :branch => 'insert-port-into-url'
                #gem "capybara-webkit", :git => 'https://github.com/josephbridgwaterrowe/capybara-webkit.git', :branch => 'patch-1'
                #gem 'capybara-mechanize', :git => 'https://github.com/jeroenvandijk/capybara-mechanize.git'

  gem 'capybara'
  gem 'capybara-screenshot', github: 'parndt/capybara-screenshot', branch: 'fix-rspec-3-0-0-deprecation'
  #gem 'capybara-screenshot'
  gem "show_me_the_cookies"
  gem 'rspec-instafail'

  # gem 'rspec_candy' # enable this for testing float to big decimal
  #gem 'moqueue' # for testing bunny
  gem "shoulda-matchers"
  # http://rubydoc.info/github/thoughtbot/shoulda-matchers/master/frames
  # gem 'timecop' # this will be useful to comparing time zones
  gem "poltergeist"

  # You can grab screenshots of the page at any point by calling page.driver.render('/path/to/file.png')
  # (this works the same way as the PhantomJS render feature, so you can specify other extensions like .pdf, .gif, etc.)
  # By default, only the viewport will be rendered (the part of the page that is in view). To render the entire page,
  # use page.driver.render('/path/to/file.png', :full => true).
  gem 'rspec-retry', github: 'justin808/rspec-retry', branch: 'justin808-rspec-299'
  gem 'resque_spec', github: 'justin808/resque_spec', branch: 'fix-for-resque-heroku'

  gem 'vcr'
  gem 'fakeweb'
  gem 'zeus', "~> 0.13.4.pre2"
end


group :test, hg(:ci), :development do
  # http://railscasts.com/episodes/413-fast-tests
  gem "rspec-rails", "~> 2.99.0.beta2"
  #gem 'rspec-rails', '~> 3.0.0.beta'
  #gem 'rspec', ">= 3.0.0.beta1"
  gem "rspec-its", "~> 1.0.0"
  gem "parallel_tests"
  gem "zeus-parallel_tests"
  gem "heroku_san", "~> 4.3.2"
end