Can't run rspec to validate specs

[mfaani]

Hi there,

I’ve tried to start a contribution a few times, I’m still stuck at the roots.
Here’s roughly what I’ve done:

• Cloned cocoapods repo

• Ran bundle install

• FWIW when I runbundle config it's all empty.

• Then from the root directory I just run rspec spec/functional/command_spec.rb and that fails. Like all attempts to run rspec fail for me on the project.
  I tried a bunch of solutions on SO, cloned again, went through multiple rspec tutorials. I can successfully run rspec somefile.rb and it works outside the repo, but I can’t figure out how to run the specs of the cocoapods repo. I get the following error:

/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/rspec-core-3.10.0/lib/rspec/core/formatters.rb:212:in `require’: cannot load such file -- rspec/core/formatters/progress_formatter (LoadError)

Do I need to modify the Gemfile ? Or something?

[mfaani]

I figured the solution:
rspec is not used. I just didn't know. Thought rspec was somehow Ruby's XCTest, but turns out you can use other things

See https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#pull-requests and
https://guides.cocoapods.org/contributing/contribute-to-cocoapods.html

CocoaPods uses bacon as a test runner. To run all tests, use bundle exec rake spec in the root of the project. If you want to run a specific test instead, use bundle exec bacon spec/[folder]/[name]_spec.rb

• Bacon seems to be just a light substitute for rspec
  See https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/blob/master/Gemfile#L37

• And also there's a spec task in the Rakefile:

  • task :spec => [:check_submodules, 'spec:all']. See https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/blob/master/Rakefile#L334
  • task :all => 'fixture_tarballs:unpack' do See https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/blob/master/Rakefile#L138

[dnkoutso]

Yes CocoaPods uses bacon to run its tests.

Will close for now.