On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Mark Wilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We ran into a situation today where running 'rake spec' on one machine > produced different results than when running on a different machine. My > reasoned hunch is that the tests were run in a different order, due to the > file-globbing producing differently ordered file lists. Because some tests > used fixtures and some didn't, that resulted in different test db contents, > depending on the order the tests were run (clearly, these tests need > fixing). > > I haven't really looked into this at all, for now. But it occurs to me that > if my suspicion is correct, this situation would be fixed by running tests > in alphabetical order. Presumably this would be a change to the spec Rake > task. > > Does this make any kind of sense? If so, I (or someone better suited to the > task) could look into it further. (Coincidentally, a similar situation > resulted in a contribution I made to Visual FoxPro!)
My personal feeling is that the code examples should be able to run in any arbitrary order and still pass (no dependencies between examples), so I would recommend you find the dependency rather than working around the problem by enforcing order. Cheers, David > ///ark > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
