User's personal .rspec file could conflict with the test suite

[Mange]

[EDIT:] To make it clear, this related to running this project's test suite. In my case because I wanted to contribute patches. This is not something that happens to project using this gem.

I have a ~/.rspec file that contains --color. This causes all tests to fail. Putting a .rspec file in the repo with either --no-color or nothing at all does not fix it.

Removing my ~/.rspec file causes the tests to work again.

Overriding $HOME and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME when executing rspec seems to work for me, but I wonder if there are any other dangerous effects of this.

XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/tmp HOME=/tmp SPEC_OPTS="" rspec ./spec/integration/rspec/contain_exactly_matcher_spec.rb:146

In theory, one could also refactor the runner so that color enabling isn't just set in the RSpec configuration but is also passed along to the rspec command itself. That would be more stable, even though it might still have issues with other things set up in the user's config.

[mcmire]

Hey! Sorry for the delay on this. I'm not exactly sure why this is happening, but I was able to reproduce this bug successfully and fix this. Give this branch/PR a shot and see if this fixes the issue for you: #62

[mcmire]

Just wanted to check again on this. Did that branch end up working for you?

[Mange]

Works for me! 👍

Sorry for not getting back to you. I must've missed the first notification.

[mcmire]

Sweet! Merging now.