rspec cannot load required gems

[Michael Watters]

Has anybody used rspec-puppet to run tests using a function that requires external ruby gems?  I'm running unit tests on resources that call functions in the puppet_thycotic module however rspec is failing with an error as shown below.

Failure/Error: require 'parseconfig'

     

     Puppet::PreformattedError:

       Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Function Call, Could not autoload puppet/parser/functions/getsecret: cannot load such file -- parseconfig at /home/username/projects/puppet/modules/example/spec/fixtures/modules/example/manifests/hostname.pp:32:20 on node host.example.com

I've installed the parseconfig gem using both the gem and puppet_gem providers but rspec still complains that it can't find the file.  Any idea how to resolve this?  Is there another directory where rspec looks for gem packages?

[Garrett Honeycutt]

Hi Michael,

Try putting the gem in your Gemfile and using bundler when you invoke
rspec, such as `bundle exec rake spec_standalone` or `bundle exec rspec`.

Best regards,
-g

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[Michael Watters]

Thanks.  I found that adding "require 'parseconfig'" to the spec/spec_helper.rb file also allows the tests to run.  bundle exec is failing with dependency errors as well.