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The short tutorial how to put an rpm file created with gem2rpm in compliance is here: http://lukas.zapletalovi.com/2011/01/how-to-prepare-gemfile-package-for.html

Testsuite execution

The most, if not all gems contains their test suite, which is commonly executed during build. This might be in most cases achieved by running rake task such as:

%check
rake spec

However this has some cavities. The problem is mainly that Rakefile usually contains not just the "spec" or "test" task for test suite execution, but also packaging tasks etc. These tasks usually depends on other gems, such as "Hoe". This brings in unnecessary dependencies and polution. Therefore, please prefer to execute the test suite as follows:

Test::Unit

RUBYOPT="I%{buildroot}%{geminstdir}/lib Itest" testrb test/test_*

MiniTest

RUBYOPT="I%{buildroot}%{geminstdir}/lib Itest" ruby -e "Dir.glob('test/**/test_*').each {|t| require t}"

RSpec

RUBYOPT="I%{buildroot}%{geminstdir}/lib Ispec" spec spec/


Additional notes

If the test suite has more dependencies, RUBYOPT can additionally enforce usage of RubyGems. This apply for all test frameworks mentioned above.

RUBYOPT="rubygems I%{buildroot}%{geminstdir}/lib Ispec" spec spec/

Why? Just adding "BR: rubygem(hoe)" and executing $ rake test" is much simpler and easier to maintain. Also using $rake check is useful because it can check if the Rakefile itself is valid or not. Please avoid such comprecated and unneeded craft as much as possible which makes spec file less readable and less maintainable. Note that BuildRequires != Requires. Adding BuildRequires does not add "runtime" dependency. If running $ rake check requires additional packages, please try to add them to Fedora project when possible. It is more useful than resorting to unusual way. - 2011-02-01 UTC 12:45 Mamoru


By the way for rspec it seems that some testsuite need rspec 1, and others need rspec 2. So should we rename rspec 2 to rubygem-rspec2 and try new review request? (And again, if some testsuite needs rspec 2 for %check, we should package it, not try to avoid using it) - Mamoru

2011-02-01 UTC 13:15 vondruch: I have nothing against adding required packages into Fedora, but I am against package pollution. Packages such as Hoe, Bundler, Rubyforge, they are useful for developer. Useful if you want to have every development dependency or create gem. They should be of course available in Fedora. But requiring them because you would like to be sure that test suite passes? It is pain.

If you want to test something in mock and the package your test "depends" on is not available in repository yet, then you are doing nothing else than installing manually packages for mock. If you require rake, it brings in immediately also dependency on RubyGems which means you have immediatelly polluted your load path with libraries you don't know. This makes execution of test suite as fragile as my magic commands.

I even don't want to mention test suites I met in recent time, which tried to install their dependencies during test suite execution. This is plain wrong.

And regarding the RSpec ... The gems I have packaged recently depends on RSpec2, but with some effort, the conversion for RSpec1 was possible with some minor cavities, like conditional execution of some example groups which is not supported by RSpec1.

If we are going ahead with direct upgrade of Rails 2.3 to Rails 3, without any alternatives, I would like to choose the same approach for RSpec (although I am aware that it might be more painful).

The only problem could be rspec-rails gem IMO. But I don't believe there are many gems which depends on it. How many Rails applications we have packaged? But they will be enforced to be migrate somehow to Rails 3 anyway.

2011-02-01 17:00UTC Testing is for development purpose (that is why we usually split test/ spec/ directories or so into -doc subpackage), so it is fairly natural to add (BuildRequires) dependency for testing suite. If you say installing them "pollutes" your environ, feel free to say so, however again it is fairly natural. It is more and more fragile to use such complicated craft than to just installing needed dependency, again your way is much harder to read and maintain. Please just package and install the needed dependency. Again %check suite is for developing purpose, i.e. - It is useful for people developing or maintaining the package, not needed on runtime (i.e. normal user). It is why we distinguish "BuildRequires" and "Requires". Normal user wouldn't need "BR" pkgs or won't have to do test suite.

This is similar to that normal people wouldn't install gcc, foo-devel or other developent-purpose pkgs. You seem to just be confused about "BuildRequires" and "Requires", or "maintainer" and "normal user". Please don't feel it "pain" to install development pkgs such as hoe, rubyforge and so on, if you are maintainer.