Running rspec hangs

[rrouse]

When I try to run rspec tests, nothing is output except this

activerecord-3.0.0.beta3/lib/active_record/base.rb:1141:in `method_missing'

Then it just hangs with 100% CPU until I kill it.

Nothing is logged, so I don't know what to give you to narrow it down. Hopefully (for your sake) it's unique to me!

[dchelimsky]

What rspec-rails version?

[rrouse]

beta 9.1. Current prerelease version.

[rrouse]

Found it. It was something in one of my models. Not sure why it would hang though. Oh well.

[dchelimsky]

What was it in your model? What did you change to make it stop hanging?

[rrouse]

I had a typo in it. So technically I didn't stop it from hanging.

[jfedgar]

I had a similar thing happen. I do not know why, exactly. I isolated it to one line of code that was

response.should == form

It was spelled correctly, I could not figure out why that line was causing it to freeze. However, I thankfully had changed what I was testing and so that line became irrelevant anyway. When I deleted the line everything worked.

The only thing I can come up with is the possibility of some hidden character in that line that rspec didn't like. I never did try to delete the line and type it out again by hand.

But, all that to say, if you have this problem, there may be a line somewhere in your rspec code that is causing it. Figure out which test it is freezing on, and start to take things out of that test or step through the code with the debugger until you find the line.

Also, if you kill rspec with ctrl c or ctrl z, make sure the ruby process for it is killed using the command 'ps' and 'kill -9 process_id', otherwise you will end up eating up all of your ram as you run rspec, kill it, run it again etc (that is what happened to me)

[alindeman]

You probably wanted response.body.should == "...".

Using response.should == "..." triggers a bug in Rack. More details at rack/rack#419