rspec can't find files to run under ruby 1.9.2

[ku1ik]

Ruby 1.9.2 removed current directory (".") from $LOAD_PATH and rspec can't load the files given on the command line.

We can change our loading behavior to expand path to absolute path when requiring files (I've did that in my fork here: http://github.com/sickill/rspec-core/commit/ebcb95546fadb5b50b5e5e2e3128ff8aa01ed9a7).

If you feel this is "obscure workaround" then let's discuss other possible solutions.

[dchelimsky]

This is about ruby-1.9.2 asking us to write rspec ./path/to/a_spec.rb instead of rspec path/to/a_spec.rb. Everything works fine if you do that, and I think it's up to us as developers to learn the new Ruby way as opposed to trying to compensate in code.

I'll close this for now, as I don't intend to change anything for this, but feel free to keep the conversation going here. I can always re-open it if the conversation leads us in that direction.

[dchelimsky]

It turns out that you can add "-I." to a .rspec file in the project root (or ~/.rspec for global settings).

[ku1ik]

Oh, great. This is a good solution.

[dchelimsky]

Fixed: http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/commit/dff65cd7eaa68379812ffc8cd20a6693f24f74c0

(this is a dup of #28)