should not require a site.pp

[bodepd]

When I try to run my rspec tests on my laptop, I get the following error:

Puppet::Error:
Could not parse for environment production: No file(s) found for import of '/Users/danbode/.puppet/manifests/site.pp' at line 3 on node danbodesmac.hsd1.or.comcast.net.
# /Users/danbode/dev/puppet/lib/puppet/parser/compiler.rb:27:in compile' # /Users/danbode/dev/puppet/lib/puppet/indirector/catalog/compiler.rb:77:incompile'
# /Users/danbode/dev/puppet/lib/puppet/util.rb:185:in benchmark' # /Users/danbode/dev/puppet/lib/puppet/indirector/catalog/compiler.rb:75:incompile'
# /Users/danbode/dev/puppet/lib/puppet/indirector/catalog/compiler.rb:35:in find' # /Users/danbode/dev/puppet/lib/puppet/indirector/indirection.rb:189:infind'
# /Users/danbode/dev/rspec-puppet/lib/rspec-puppet/support.rb:12:in build_catalog' # /Users/danbode/dev/rspec-puppet/lib/rspec-puppet/example/class_example_group.rb:51:incatalogue'
# /Users/danbode/dev/rspec-puppet/lib/rspec-puppet/example/class_example_group.rb:7:in `subject'
# ./ntp_spec.rb:8\

I can easily resolve this error by just creating an empty file

[rodjek]

That error is actually coming from Puppet itself, it's expecting to find a site.pp under your configured manifestdir

[bodepd]

I understand that. I just had a feeling that there may be a way to change how the puppet internal APIs are used to eliminate the error. I can try to look into this in the next week or so and see if I can come up with a patch (the patch would be more likely to be against rspec-puppet than puppet, I think...)

[jeffmccune]

I filed an issue against Puppet that it should support the way rspec-puppet is working. I believe Puppet needs to support compiler functionality as a "platform" rather than simply treating this as an application feature.

The issue is: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/11191

[rodjek]

In the meantime, I've just added a rspec-puppet-init script that you can run inside your modules to get everything setup. One of things it does is create a dummy site.pp and configure rspec-puppet to use it.