rspec logging tips?

[Christopher Dwan]

We're finding that it's like voodoo magic for us to work with rspec and our goliath app. The main thing is that failures happen and there is no logging, which can be somewhat infuriating when the test passes by manually testing it via curl requests but fails in the rspec tests.

Is there a method to get logging to output to test.log while running rspec?

-C

[Ilya Grigorik]

I've run into this before as well.. Should be just a matter of extending with_api? 

ig

[Juan Felipe Rincon]

Try adding the following to your spec_helper.rb file --

...

module Goliath
  module TestHelper
    def server(api, port, options = {}, &blk)
      op = OptionParser.new
      s = Goliath::Server.new
      # Make it possible for you to specify a log file in with_api call as Options parameter
      s.logger = options[:log_file].nil? ? mock('log').as_null_object : Logger.new(options.delete(:log_file))
      s.api = api.new
      s.app = Goliath::Rack::Builder.build(api, s.api)
      s.api.options_parser(op, options)
      s.options = options
      s.port = @test_server_port = port
      s.start(&blk)
      s
    end
  end
end

....

With that, you can call with_api(YourApi, {:log_file => 'path/to/your/logfile'})  and see the log output in a file.

[Juan Felipe Rincon]

In case anyone lands on this via search, this was fixed with this patch:

https://github.com/postrank-labs/goliath/pull/106#issuecomment-3009404

[sleeper]

Not to be pedantic but the above commit was not working for me, and I've to fix it: 

https://github.com/postrank-labs/goliath/pull/118