Rspec looking for different path pattern

[ScotterC]

Spork 1.0.0.rc3 starts up fine.

With rspec 2.11.1, it fails to get files to run:

Exception encountered: #<NoMethodError: undefined method `split' for #Rake::FileList:0x007ff801843108>

.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/rspec-core-2.11.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:806:in `get_files_to_run'
.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/rspec-core-2.11.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:504:in `files_or_directories_to_run='
.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/rspec-core-2.11.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration_options.rb:20:in `block in configure'
.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/rspec-core-2.11.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration_options.rb:19:in `each'
.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/rspec-core-2.11.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration_options.rb:19:in `configure'
.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/rspec-core-2.11.1/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:21:in `run'
.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/spork-1.0.0rc3/lib/spork/test_framework/rspec.rb:11:in `run_tests'
.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/spork-1.0.0rc3/lib/spork/run_strategy/forking.rb:13:in `block in run'
.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/spork-1.0.0rc3/lib/spork/forker.rb:21:in `block in initialize'
.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/spork-1.0.0rc3/lib/spork/forker.rb:18:in `fork'
.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/spork-1.0.0rc3/lib/spork/forker.rb:18:in `initialize'
.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/spork-1.0.0rc3/lib/spork/run_strategy/forking.rb:9:in `new'
.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/spork-1.0.0rc3/lib/spork/run_strategy/forking.rb:9:in `run'
.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/spork-1.0.0rc3/lib/spork/server.rb:48:in `run'
.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/drb/drb.rb:1548:in `perform_without_block'
.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/drb/drb.rb:1508:in `perform'
.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/drb/drb.rb:1586:in `block (2 levels) in main_loop'
.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/drb/drb.rb:1582:in `loop'
.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/drb/drb.rb:1582:in `block in main_loop'

Rspec works fine without rspec however. It normall would have input of '*_/__spec.rb' to split.

Relevant Code:
rspec-core-2.11.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:806

def get_files_to_run(paths)
  patterns = pattern.split(",")

pattern is Rake::FileList, if I just convert it to an array, code works fine.

patterns = pattern.to_a.split(",")

A bit of a monkey patch but works for now.

[ScotterC]

Found the issue.

My spec_helper was overriding the pattern

config.pattern = FileList[config.pattern].exclude('requests')

Feel free to close.