[chef] RE: Re: Serverspec 2.0 release

[Martin Smith < >]

Hi folks,

My solution was to switch to busser-rspec, which allows you to provide a 
Gemfile (and use that to pin back serverspec < 2). I don't see any functional 
difference in that approach, and also would allow you to pin rspec or install 
other gems required by rspec/serverspec tests.

Hope this helps,

Martin B. Smith, 

 

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From: Rafał Trójniak 

 
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2014 3:56 PM
To: 

 
Subject: [chef] Re: Serverspec 2.0 release

Helo,
Thanks, for that notification. I hope it will decrease time for other
people.

I've bumped to this today, and:
- lost 1 hour to figure out what's going one (it was in the middle of a
  tests)
- tried 1 hour to freeze version of serverspec in test-kitchen (see
  below)
- learned in 20 minutes how to fix incompatibility

Nerveless, this was quite unexpected end of the week. Is there any way
that I can force test-kitchen/busser to use only older version ? Some
way of effectively Gemfile would be really nice. It would allow to
migrate to new version of serverspec with preparations, not by force.

I've tried to google something, even dig into the code. I found that I
can put Gemfile inside serverspec directory (for example
tests/integration/default/serverspec/Gemfile). That almost worked
(older gems were also installed). But still old and new version is
present, ruby uses newer version and test crashes.

I have run tests successfully only by invoking ruby manually, specifying
each library with -I option, but that's it.

Regards.

On Fri,  3 Oct 2014 12:20:18 -0700 (PDT)
<
 >
 wrote:

> Most of you probably didn't know serverspec released a 2.0.0
> today[1]. You also might not have noticed but this likely breaks your
> test kitchen runs with something like this,
>
>    /tmp/busser/suites/serverspec/spec_helper.rb:4:in `<top
> (required)>': uninitialized constant Serverspec::Helper::Exec
> (NameError) ...
>
> From Serverspec,
>
>    spec_helper.rb incompatible
>    spec_helper.rb does not have backward compatibility. So you should
> re-generate spec_helper.rb by serverspec-init and check it.
>
>    Backend helper and DetectOS helper have been removed
>    In version 1, you need to include SpecInfra::Helper::backend_type
> SpecInfra::Helper::DetectOS to detect the os of target hosts like
> this.
>
>    require 'serverspec'
>    include SpecInfra::Helper::Ssh
>    include SpecInfra::Helper::DetectOS
>
> Test-Kitchen by default will install the latest version of serverspec.
> Thankfully upgrading is pretty easy. You can do the whole
> serverspec-init if you want but my helper looks like this,
>
>    require 'serverspec'
>
>    # Required by serverspec
>    set :backend, :exec
>
> [1] - http://rubygems.org/gems/serverspec/versions/2.0.0


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