Wanted to add some more information to this.... Since Cucumber seemed to be working, I created a feature and used it to drive the initial creation of a new controller.
Once the route was done I dropped down to a controller spec and wrote the controller code that makes it pass. Now when I run AUTOFEATURE=true autospec it dies with the following stack trace: Warning: $KCODE is NONE. /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.3.90/lib/cucumber/ step_definition.rb:100: warning: method redefined; discarding old regexp /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/treetop-1.3.0/lib/treetop/ruby_extensions/ string.rb:31: warning: method redefined; discarding old indent /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/treetop-1.3.0/lib/treetop/compiler/ node_classes/character_class.rb:13: warning: useless use of a literal in void context /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/treetop-1.3.0/lib/treetop/compiler.rb:5: warning: global variable `$exclude_metagrammar' not initialized /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/treetop-1.3.0/lib/treetop/compiler/ metagrammar.rb:232: warning: method redefined; discarding old space /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/treetop-1.3.0/lib/treetop/compiler/ metagrammar.rb:388: warning: method redefined; discarding old space /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/treetop-1.3.0/lib/treetop/compiler/ metagrammar.rb:771: warning: method redefined; discarding old space /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/treetop-1.3.0/lib/treetop/compiler/ metagrammar.rb:779: warning: method redefined; discarding old space /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.3.90/lib/cucumber/parser/ feature.rb:28: warning: method redefined; discarding old white /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.3.90/lib/cucumber/parser/ feature.rb:36: warning: method redefined; discarding old white /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.3.90/lib/cucumber/parser/ feature.rb:679: warning: method redefined; discarding old white /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.3.90/lib/cucumber/parser/ feature.rb:687: warning: method redefined; discarding old white /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.3.90/lib/cucumber/parser/ feature.rb:813: warning: method redefined; discarding old white /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.3.90/lib/cucumber/parser/ feature.rb:825: warning: method redefined; discarding old white /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.3/lib/active_support/ core_ext/blank.rb:49: warning: method redefined; discarding old blank? /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby / Users/andypearson/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rspec-1.1.12/bin/spec spec/ controllers/lifestream_controller_spec.rb -O spec/spec.opts /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.2.8/lib/spec/autorun.rb:3: undefined method `autorun' for Spec::Runner:Module (NoMethodError) from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require' from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require' from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.3/lib/ active_support/dependencies.rb:158:in `require' from ./spec/controllers/../spec_helper.rb:5 from ./spec/controllers/lifestream_controller_spec.rb:1:in `require' from ./spec/controllers/lifestream_controller_spec.rb:1 from /Users/andypearson/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rspec-1.1.12/lib/spec/ runner/example_group_runner.rb:15:in `load' from /Users/andypearson/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rspec-1.1.12/lib/spec/ runner/example_group_runner.rb:15:in `load_files' from /Users/andypearson/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rspec-1.1.12/lib/spec/ runner/example_group_runner.rb:14:in `each' from /Users/andypearson/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rspec-1.1.12/lib/spec/ runner/example_group_runner.rb:14:in `load_files' from /Users/andypearson/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rspec-1.1.12/lib/spec/ runner/options.rb:94:in `run_examples' from /Users/andypearson/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rspec-1.1.12/lib/spec/ runner/command_line.rb:9:in `run' from /Users/andypearson/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rspec-1.1.12/bin/spec:4 Odd thing is, rake spec gets me what I want: ... Finished in 0.071358 seconds 3 examples, 0 failures Based on this, my assumption is this is something to do with ZenTest, have I got an incompatible set of gems? I tried to pull out the most relevant ones: aslakhellesoy-webrat (0.3.2.1) autotest-rails (4.1.0) cucumber (0.3.90, 0.1.16, 0.1.15) nokogiri (1.3.2, 1.1.0) rails (2.3.3, 2.2.2, 2.2.0, 2.1.2, 2.1.1, 2.1.0, 2.0.991, 2.0.2, 2.0.1, 1.2.6, 1.2.3) rspec (1.2.8, 1.1.12, 1.1.11) rspec-rails (1.2.7.1, 1.1.12, 1.1.11) treetop (1.3.0, 1.2.4) webrat (0.4.4, 0.4.0, 0.3.4, 0.2.0) ZenTest (4.1.3, 3.11.0, 3.10.0, 3.9.3, 3.9.2, 3.8.0, 3.6.1) Really hoping I can get some help with this, hitting a block like this gets super frustrating, particularly what I am trying to "do the right thing" by getting this up and running to I can BDD and hopefully write better software! Thanks again in advance, Andy _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users