Oh no! I have a "Spec" model

[Vincent P]

I am trying to use cucumber but my application has a "Spec" model (I
followed the RailsSpace book). So now I am getting an error when
running cucumber (below). I think because cucumber does not like a
model named "Spec." But I have "Spec" and "spec(s)" everywhere in my
application now. A universal text change is a huge pain. Some
innocent text contains the string "spec", e.g. "aspect". So I have to
look at each replacement. What can I do? Please help. Thanks.

Spec is not a class (TypeError)
/Volumes/Data/Beo/Documents/RailsSpace/app/models/spec.rb:1
/opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
`gem_original_require'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
`polyglot_original_require'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/polyglot-0.2.9/lib/polyglot.rb:70:in
`require'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/
active_support/dependencies.rb:158:in `require'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/
active_support/dependencies.rb:265:in `require_or_load'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/
active_support/dependencies.rb:224:in `depend_on'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/
active_support/dependencies.rb:136:in `require_dependency'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/initializer.rb:
414:in `load_application_classes'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/initializer.rb:
413:in `each'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/initializer.rb:
413:in `load_application_classes'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/initializer.rb:
411:in `each'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/initializer.rb:
411:in `load_application_classes'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/initializer.rb:
197:in `process'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/initializer.rb:
113:in `send'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/initializer.rb:
113:in `run'
/Volumes/Data/Beo/Documents/OptiDev/config/environment.rb:9
/opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
`gem_original_require'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
`polyglot_original_require'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/polyglot-0.2.9/lib/polyglot.rb:70:in
`require'
/Volumes/Data/Beo/Documents/OptiDev/features/support/env.rb:8
/opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
`gem_original_require'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
`polyglot_original_require'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/polyglot-0.2.9/lib/polyglot.rb:70:in
`require'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.6.1/bin/../lib/cucumber/
rb_support/rb_language.rb:124:in `load_code_file'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.6.1/bin/../lib/cucumber/
step_mother.rb:84:in `load_code_file'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.6.1/bin/../lib/cucumber/
step_mother.rb:76:in `load_code_files'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.6.1/bin/../lib/cucumber/
step_mother.rb:75:in `each'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.6.1/bin/../lib/cucumber/
step_mother.rb:75:in `load_code_files'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.6.1/bin/../lib/cucumber/
cli/main.rb:48:in `execute!'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.6.1/bin/../lib/cucumber/
cli/main.rb:20:in `execute'
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/cucumber-0.6.1/bin/cucumber:8
/opt/local/bin/cucumber:19:in `load'
/opt/local/bin/cucumber:19

[Marnen Laibow-Koser]

On Jan 26, 6:51 pm, Vincent P <ease...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to use cucumber but my application has a "Spec" model (I
> followed the RailsSpace book).

...which is quite out of date.

>  So now I am getting an error when
> running cucumber (below).  I think because cucumber does not like a
> model named "Spec."  

Actually, I think that would be more of a proble for RSpec. But I
could be wrong.

> But I have "Spec" and "spec(s)" everywhere in my
> application now.  A universal text change is a huge pain.  Some
> innocent text contains the string "spec", e.g. "aspect".  So I have to
> look at each replacement.  

Well, you should look at each replacement anyway.

> What can I do?  Please help.

Try a regular expression search and replace, so that you don't hit
innocent words.

>  Thanks.
>

Best,
--
Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
mar...@marnen.org

[Vincent P]

Thanks. So the problem is the "Spec" model name? There is no other
way but to change "Spec" to something else?

I started with RailsSpace as a starting point a while back but my
application has evolved since.

[Marnen Laibow-Koser]

Learn by Doing wrote:
> Thanks. So the problem is the "Spec" model name?

Most likely.

> There is no other
> way but to change "Spec" to something else?

Probably not. And this should not be difficult.

>
> I started with RailsSpace as a starting point a while back but my
> application has evolved since.

Best,

--
Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
mar...@marnen.org

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[Vincent P]

Thanks Marnen. I am trying to use regular expression to replace the
text "spec" in TextMate with "mug". I am trying to avoid instances of
"spec" where it does not mean the name of the model, e.g. "aspect".
So I use the following regular expression: [^a-zA-Z]spec . That
would catch "@spec" which is what I want. But if I tell TextMate to
replace that with "mug", I lose the character before "spec". TextMate
replaces "@spec" with "mug" . How can I make it replace @spec with
@mug ?

Thanks.

[Marnen Laibow-Koser]

Learn by Doing wrote:
> Thanks Marnen. I am trying to use regular expression to replace the
> text "spec" in TextMate with "mug". I am trying to avoid instances of
> "spec" where it does not mean the name of the model, e.g. "aspect".
> So I use the following regular expression: [^a-zA-Z]spec . That
> would catch "@spec" which is what I want. But if I tell TextMate to
> replace that with "mug", I lose the character before "spec". TextMate
> replaces "@spec" with "mug" . How can I make it replace @spec with
> @mug ?
>

Most regexp syntaxes support backreferences in the replace string, which
is what you need. Check TextMate's documentation to see how it
implements backreferences.

> Thanks.

[Ease Bus]

Thanks Marnen! 

I will surely look into back references next time.  Before I got your answer, I managed to do this manually by replacing "Spec" then "spec" when preceded with each of the special characters: @ : ' " / - ! space.  I downloaded and used "Name Mangler" to replace "spec" in file names.   While tedious, you are right that it is not too difficult.  Cucumber seems to work now.  I am ready to dive into BDD.  

Thank you so much for your help.

Vincent

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[Vincent P]

Marnen!

Thank you so much for motivating me to use Cucumber. It makes
functional and integration testing so easy!

Vincent.

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[Marnen Laibow-Koser]

Learn by Doing wrote:
> Marnen!
>
> Thank you so much for motivating me to use Cucumber. It makes
> functional and integration testing so easy!

You're most welcome. It's amazing, isn't it?

>
> Vincent.