> As mentioned before, I'm trying to get all the specs of mspec pass
> before jumping in some RubySpec checks.

> I found the following specs in fs_spec.rb

>   it "removes a symlink" do
>     File.symlink @topfile, @link
>     rm_r @link
>     File.exists?(@link).should be_false
>   end

>   it "removes a socket" do
>     require 'socket'
>     UNIXServer.new(@socket).close
>     rm_r @socket
>     File.exists?(@socket).should be_false
>   end

> Those two are very platform specific, as neither Ruby on Windows or JRuby work:

> C:\Users\Luis\Projects\oss\mspec>ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.7 (2010-06-23 patchlevel 299) [i386-mingw32]

> 2)
> NotImplementedError in 'Object#rm_r removes a symlink'
> symlink() function is unimplemented on this machine
> C:/Users/Luis/Projects/oss/mspec/spec/helpers/fs_spec.rb:142:in `symlink'
> C:/Users/Luis/Projects/oss/mspec/spec/helpers/fs_spec.rb:142

> 3)
> NameError in 'Object#rm_r removes a socket'
> uninitialized constant UNIXServer
> C:/Users/Luis/Projects/oss/mspec/spec/helpers/fs_spec.rb:149

> C:\Users\Luis\Projects\oss\mspec>jruby -v
> jruby 1.5.1 (ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel 249) (2010-06-06 f3a3480) (Java
> HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.6.0_18) [x86-java]

> 3)
> NotImplementedError in 'Object#rm_r removes a symlink'
> symlink() function is unimplemented on this machine
> C:/Users/Luis/Projects/oss/mspec/spec/helpers/fs_spec.rb:142

> 4)
> NameError in 'Object#rm_r removes a socket'
> uninitialized constant UNIXServer
> C:/Users/Luis/Projects/oss/mspec/spec/helpers/fs_spec.rb:149

> A simple approach will be usage of platform_is_not around it, but that
> seems chicken-egg-dinosaur for me.

> Thoughts?
> --
> Luis Lavena
> AREA 17
> -
> Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add,
> but rather when there is nothing more to take away.
> Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

> You're right, it is a bit of a chicken and egg problem, but we have to
> be able to account for Windows differences in the specs. Also, the
> platform dependent helper functionality should not involve the code
> for platform guards and vice versa.

> So for now, let's just use the mspec platform guards in the mspec
> specs as necessary. If we run into problems, we can revisit this.

> I've pushed fixes to 3 of the 4 failures I had in the mspec specs on
> Windows.

>> The fourth failure involves Enumerator not being defined at
>> top level. This should be defined in 1.8.7+ and I'm using your
>> installation of 1.8.7p249. Would you be able to track down whether
>> this is a bug in the Windows version?

> Investigating this. Will push a fix if needed.

> >> The fourth failure involves Enumerator not being defined at
> >> top level. This should be defined in 1.8.7+ and I'm using your
> >> installation of 1.8.7p249. Would you be able to track down whether
> >> this is a bug in the Windows version?

> > Investigating this. Will push a fix if needed.

> Interesting:

> Specs says:

>   ruby_version_is '1.8.7' do
>     it "returns Enumerator in Ruby 1.8.7+" do
>       enumerator_class.should == Enumerator
>     end
>   end

> but enumerator_class is this:

>   def enumerator_class
>     SpecVersion.new(RUBY_VERSION) < "1.9" ? Enumerable::Enumerator : Enumerator
>   end

> Which will always return Enumerable::Enumerator with Ruby < 1.9

> Checking directly with Ruby:

> C:\Users\Luis\Projects\oss\mspec>ruby -ve "puts
> $LOADED_FEATURES.inspect; puts Enumerable::Enumerator"
> ruby 1.8.7 (2010-06-23 patchlevel 299) [i386-mingw32]
> ["enumerator.so"]
> Enumerable::Enumerator

> Is Enumerable::Enumerator,

> And the spec also fails on Linux:

> [ruby-1.8.7-p174] luis@ubuntu86:~/src/mspec$ spec
> spec/helpers/enumerator_class_spec.rb
> F

> 1)
> NameError in '#enumerator_class returns Enumerator in Ruby 1.8.7+'
> uninitialized constant Enumerator
> ./spec/helpers/enumerator_class_spec.rb:17:

> Seems to me the spec is wrong?