[chef] Re: RE: Re: Serverspec 2.0 release

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

You can use a gemfile with busser-serverspec too I think.

--Noah

On Oct 3, 2014, at 2:57 PM, Martin Smith 
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> 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 
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> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2014 3:56 PM
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> 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)
> <
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>  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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