rake test fails under InstantRails but not OSX

rubyonrails-talk
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I've found an intriguing issue with Rake. I develop under OSX and all my tests pass when I run 'rake test'. I recently tried this on Windows XP using InstantRails and a few of the unit tests failed. Interestingly, if I manually execute rake_test_loader.rb with the same parameters as Rake itself uses (or at least, what Rake prints to the console), the tests pass fine, e.g:

$ ruby -Ilib;test "C:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ rake-0.7.3/lib/rake/rake_test_loader.rb" "test/unit/test_1.rb" "test/ unit/test_2etc.rb"

Would anyone be able to enlighten me as to what Rake is doing differently which might explain this behaviour?

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Shot in the dark but if the locales for the database are different from the windows box and the OS X box you could get failing tests if you are testing the order of a result.

ex. assert_equal Post.find_recent.first, posts(:first)

Its happened to me. - Richard