[chef] Re: Re: Re: Ohai Rakefile requires 'spec/rake/spectask', but not found on my system

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Ringo De Smet 
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> Dan,
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> On 9 December 2010 17:18, Daniel DeLeo 
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>> We haven't updated to rspec 2.x yet, you need rspec 1.3.1. Also, we've
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> OK, after installing rspec 1.3.1, 'rake spec' worked as expected.
> Meanwhile, OHAI-235 is resolved and a pull request pending.
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>> been making an effort to make the rake tasks rescue these kinds of
>> errors so you can still build and install the gems without having
>> development dependencies installed. Can you file a ticket for this for
>> the ohai project?
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> I'm not sure what you want me to do here. May I ask you to enter the
> ticket yourself? I think you will be able give a better description
> and comments on the ticket.
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> Ringo
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I filed OHAI-236[1] about this, but now I see it's not really a
problem for your case since you actually wanted to run the specs. The
improvement I'm talking about is to structure the rakefile so it will
be able to run other tasks (like `rake gem` or `rake install`) when
rspec isn't installed. The spec tasks for Chef already do this[2].

Thanks,
Dan

1. http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/OHAI-236
2. https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/chef/tasks/rspec.rb