Windows Support (Vote) about spork

[hoenth]

+1

[nzifnab]

Yes please :<

[jmonteiro]

+1

This really a needed thing to me, since I need to test my features (Cucumber) with Watir/IE :-(

[jcfischer]

+1 - we need this too for a project. I can help (hopefully) with the coding

[rdp]

+1
The kicker really is that with windows I think you'll need to forward all your stdin/stderr output across TCP sockets back to the host. But it should work :)

[timcharper]

This is actually already done (stdin / sterr output over tcp sockets). DRb does some magic to let you do this. (referring to Roger's comment)

I'm really excited to get started on this. I've been very swamped with my preparations for #LSRC though (you have no idea how much work it is to prepare a measly 6 hours worth of training). So... excited to get back to this when I get back.

[rdp]

Oh nice. I suppose for now windows users can use cygwin--that doesn't help me too much since I use normal Test::Unit tests, but hey, it's one step closer to coding bliss :)
-r

[kriswill]

+1 working in windows would be awesome, feature runs are slooow - might have to resort to spec_server for now

[bhavinkamani]

+1

[timcharper]

Getting much closer. The RunStrategy extraction has been completed, so now one would just need to implement the Magazine RunStrategy and it'll be done!

[jcfischer]

I'll be back at the project next week (although we have switched to JRuby completely) -- and I'll take a look if I can work on this

[timcharper]

ok - jruby is on the radar as well. Can be supported via forking strategy using FFI on POSIX systems, and windows sytem via magazine strategy.

[grosser]

Just a sidenote: If anyone has experience with forking for windows/jruby, the parallel and with it the parallel_specs projects are in need of windows/jruby forking too...

[pbalduino]

plz

[timcharper]

@grosser - as far as I know, ruby on windows doesn't support Kernel.fork. You will need to fire up separate processes, and communicate with them.

[rkoloski]

It'd be a huge plus for me and my team as well.

Is it correct to assume that because Kernel.fork is implemented in Ruby, that running Cygwin won't help if Cygwin is pointing to a Win32 Ruby interpreter?

Let me know if/how I can help.

[cwoodward]

Another vote to get this working.

[timcharper]

Please see the wiki page: http://wiki.github.com/timcharper/spork/windowssupport

I've outlined what's needed to do, and I've architected spork so this will be possible.

If you're interested in implementing it, I'm happy to offer assistance.

Tim

[jsuchal]

+1

[Milhouse]

+1 Using Windows at work. Hate slow tests :)

[rdp]

If anybody's adventurous they could try my fork
http://github.com/rdp/spork
which theoretically works with windows (and give me feedback/feature requests...)
-r

[markj9]

+1

[Milhouse]

I added a fork (http://wiki.github.com/Milhouse/spork/) which adds a preliminary "magazine" strategy for Windows. It's certainly a beta, but it does work with both Rspec and Cucumber so far.

[timcharper]

Milhouse, Roger Pack, this is awesome! Way to go guys!

[Zloy]

+1

[timcharper]

merged in!

[rdp]

I think you could use popen and avoid the MRI dependency (?)

[timcharper]

that's a great idea, I was wondering about that. Milhouse, what do you think?

[jsuchal]

Hmm, the newest gemspec file does not include magazine strategy files, please regenerate it a and push a new version to gemcutter since this is unusable at the moment. Anyways I was able to rebuild the gem locally and seems to work well. Thanks.

[timcharper]

Paciencia!

:)

It's "merged in", not released yet.

[jsuchal]

Sorry for all the impatient disturbance.

[Milhouse]

It might be a way to let JRuby join the party. I'd seen popen (and it's cousins popen3, popen4) at http://devver.net/blog/2009/10/ruby-subprocesses-part_3/ I wasn't sure it would work, so I stuck with the win-32/process library. Also, I had to change the current working directory (cwd). I'm not sure if popen has this as an option. I'll take a look, but it would early next week before I have time. Thanks again, Roger.

[Milhouse]

I'm not an expert on processes and pipes. The reason I used the win32-process gem was to create a new process that returned a PID and continued on it's merry way independent of the parent process. popen and related apis seem to expect the parent process to wait for the child to finish. There may be a way to do what I need, but it's not clear to me.

There is a new call in Ruby 1.9 that does this. Process.spawn. It fires off a new process and returns the PID. It allows the working directory to be set. It works in the edge JRuby 1.5 using Ruby 1.9.2. The PTY.spawn in Ruby 1.8 has similar functionality, but doesn't work in Windows. I'm going to experiment to see how this might work.

[rdp]

you can probably just spawn off a new thread to wait on the popen thread.

[jetsgit]

+1

Would be very handy

jet

[rguerrero]

+1

thank!!

[rdp]

can we close this?

[timcharper]

I think it is closed. People keep on commenting on it, however :S. okay people: it's closed! It's been done! No more commenting!

We should probably open up a new ticket for Java support.

[rguerrero]

but exist a version for windows?

[timcharper]

yes! :)

[rguerrero]

where i can download?

[timcharper]

gem install spork.

[rguerrero]

when i do that show me this error:
Error installing spork:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

[timcharper]

can you post the make.out file? full screen shot? any and all details will be helpful. Use jing to record and share a quick screencast, if possible.

[rguerrero]

the gem_make.out:

"H:/Rodrigo Guerrero/RubyApp/Ruby187/bin/ruby.exe" mkrf_conf.rb
Actually, there aren't any native extensions. I'm just dynamically installing dependencies based off of your operating system
installing windows dependencies

"H:/Rodrigo Guerrero/RubyApp/Ruby187/bin/ruby.exe" -rubygems H:/Rodrigo Guerrero/RubyApp/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/bin/rake RUBYARCHDIR="C:/Documents and Settings/Usuario/.bundle/ruby/1.8/gems/spork-0.8.4/lib" RUBYLIBDIR="C:/Documents and Settings/Usuario/.bundle/ruby/1.8/gems/spork-0.8.4/lib"
H:/Rodrigo Guerrero/RubyApp/Ruby187/bin/ruby.exe: No such file or directory -- H:/Rodrigo (LoadError)

[rdp]

ahh. I think that is something of a bug in rubygems (doesn't handle spaces in the dir name). I'll report it there if there are no objections to me doing so.

[rguerrero]

But i do without space for test:
"H:/Rodrig1/RubyApp/Ruby187/bin/ruby.exe" -rubygems H:/Rodrig1/RubyApp/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/bin/rake RUBYARCHDIR="C:/Docume~1/Usuario/.bundle/ruby/1.8/gems/spork-0.8.4/lib" RUBYLIBDIR="C:/Documents and Settings/Usuario/.bundle/ruby/1.8/gems/spork-0.8.4/lib"

but show me other error:
No examples matching ./spec/*_/__spec.rb could be found

[rdp]

that might be a real bug...anybody know where the root cause of that one might be found?

[rdp]

installs for me with 1.8.7 from http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/

D:\installs\a space\ruby-1.8.7-p249-i386-mingw32-1\ruby-1.8.7-p249-i386-mingw32\bin>gem install spork
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Successfully installed spork-0.8.4
1 gem installed
because of new gem installation recreating all faster_rubygems caches
faster_rubygems: creating caches
..

Not sure about the other one though...

[rguerrero]

I have install rails 3.0.0.beta.4

[rdp]

upload your files somewhere and I can test it

[rguerrero]

give me a mail where send you.

Thank

[rdp]

[email protected]