Running Spork with rspec in Rails 3 on Windows 7

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Hi,

As stated in the subject I require to set up the following:

Spork + Rspec on Windows using Rails3

It looks as if rspec is not Rails 3 ready yet and Spork does not play nicely with Windows.

Is there a way to hack it all together or some viable alternative? the time to run rake spec I killing me!

Any tips would be much appreciated

Regards,

Alex

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Rspec is compatible with Rails 3. https://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails

Have you looked at autotest (part of ZenTest) to save having to rake spec all the time. I’m sure I came across a windows Rspec, Autotest and Snarl notifications tutorial on the web once. A quick search will probably find it.

David White

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After quite some time, I got my spork working with cygwin. what environment are you using and what errors do you get?

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Sorry, typed the wrong thing:

I meant to say Spork is not rails 3 ready...

In the meantime I have managed to get Spork running on the app with some hacks, however I am not sure how to get rspec to use it:

1) Modified spec_helper file 2) Added "-drb" to new line in .rspec file

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Hi, Spork is running using a slightly modified version of the 0.9.0.rc2 gem

everything looks fine now... however I am not sure what to do next to make "rake spec" use it.

I have modified the spec_helper and .rspec files

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Hi David, I have installed autotest, I will look at Snarl

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Veldtmana! You must be using 2 consoles: one for spork and one for rake spec.