07:39 <technicalpickles> foca: the way rspec 1.x does it is pretty hacky. iirc, it has something to do with the directory it's in. fortunately, it's one of the things that rspec 2 is trying to fix

08:31 <rsl> i need to set request.host in an rspec/webrat integration test but google coming up short on help for this. anyone know how it's done?

08:31 <rsl> i'd rather not append hostname to every visit call.

08:32 <rsl> though i think i read that would work.

08:32 <malesca> rsl: I have this in a cucumber step definition: host! domain

08:32 <malesca> not sure exactly how that'd translate to rspec with webrat

08:32 <rsl> malesca: yeah i saw that and tried it but it doesn't seem to do anything.

08:33 <rsl> session and request are both nil objects in the before block where i'm setting this.

08:34 <malesca> rsl: ah, yeah, seems you should do session.host!("www.example.com"), so it makes sense that it wouldn't work without a session

08:35 <rsl> might do something nasty for the moment until i can find the real solution.

08:35 <technicalpickles> I'm pretty sure I've used just 'host! "blahblah.com"' before

08:35 <malesca> there is a url_rewriter_test in Rails that has default_url_options[:host] = 'www.basecamphq.com'

08:35 <technicalpickles> just remember that the World of cucumber tests are a rails integration test

08:36 <technicalpickles> so, if you can find something for setting the host there, it should work in cucumber

08:36 <rsl> technicalpickles: not using cuke. just rspec.

08:36 <technicalpickles> ahh, alright. it's still an ActionController::TestCase :)

08:37 <dchelimsky> rsl: what rails version?

08:37 <technicalpickles> basically all the rspec-rails stuff wrap the appropriate TestCase, so controllers would get ActionController::TestCase, integration tests would get ActionController::IntegrationTest, etc

08:38 <rsl> dchelimsky: rspec 1.2.9 and rails 2.3.5

08:38 <dchelimsky> rsl: first, i'd upgrade to rspec-rails-1.3.2

08:39 <dchelimsky> either way, though, you should be able to set headers on request.env

08:39 <rsl> request is nil though. might be version issue. lemme upgrade and see.

08:41 <dchelimsky> http://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec-rails/blob/master/spec/spec/rails/example/controller_example_group_spec.rb

08:41 <dchelimsky> line 201

08:41 <dchelimsky> http://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec-rails/blob/master/spec/spec/rails/example/controller_example_group_spec.rb#L201

08:41 <dchelimsky> that's a spec for rspec-rails-1.3.2

08:42 <dchelimsky> HTH

08:42 <dchelimsky> rsl: warning ....

08:42 <dchelimsky> you may end up shaving a yak or two upgrading

08:42 <dchelimsky> but it's probably worth it

08:43 <dchelimsky> in fact ....

08:43 <dchelimsky> rails 2.3.5 was released after rspec-rails-1.2.9

08:44 <dchelimsky> definitely good reason to upgrade

08:44 <dchelimsky> :)

08:50 <rsl> hrm upgrade went fine [didn't need to fix any tests] but still getting nil error for request in the before block.

08:50 <rsl> reading in webrat source to see if anything jumps out.

08:54 <rsl> thanks though to everyone so far.

10:03 <dchelimsky> rsl: are you using before(:all)?

10:03 <rsl> dchelimsky: no i was using before each

10:03 <dchelimsky> odd

10:03 <rsl> should i try that?

10:03 <dchelimsky> wonder why that spec passes in rspec-rails' own specs

10:03 <rsl> i never got it working though. i ended up setting an instance var for host and overriding visit to prepend the host name from the ivar.

10:03 <rsl> hacky but worked.

10:04 <dchelimsky> glad you got something working

10:04 <rsl> thanks for the help though. yeah it's weird it doesn't work. i see AC::IntegrationTest in the ancestors but a lot of the methods seem to be awol.

12:39 <a2ron> hi guys, i'm trying to use autospec and rspec together to run specs on a rails project. the trouble is, autospec won't run my specs. It just outputs "loading autotest/rails_rspec"

12:39 <a2ron> I can run the specs fine with 'rake spec'

12:45 <a2ron> nvm, figured it out. needed a .autotest file with the correct file. thanks.

14:50 <anlek> How can I add a new folder (spec/observers) into the load_path for rspec to see it?

15:07 <adamaig> anlek: what have you tried?

15:07 <anlek> I tried add_hook, but I just noticed that my ~/.autotest wasn't being read when calling autospec --rails

15:07 <anlek> I tried a lot more, but this is where I'm at now

15:08 <adamaig> hmm i thought that rspec looked for all **/*_spec.rb so simply creating the directory w/ specs works if the directory is under app

15:09 <anlek> when I call 'spec spec', it does. But when autospec calls it, it sends a list of files/folders

15:12 <anlek> adamaig: I was able to figure it out, I pretty much coppeid "/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-rails-1.3.2/lib/autotest/rails_rspec.rb" into my ~/.autotest and tweaked it with my extra folders.

15:18 <adamaig> i see

15:18 <adamaig> seems like that could be globbed better