Upgrading from 2.13.0 to 2.13.1 caused "uninitialized constant Rails"

[mceachen]

gems/rspec-rails-2.13.1/lib/rspec/rails/rails_version.rb:10:in `rails_version': uninitialized constant Rails (NameError)

If you're going to reference ::Rails explicitly in rspec/rails/rails_version.rb, perhaps you should require 'rails' explicitly as well?

This was not required by your consumers in <= v2.13.0.

(I'm using this for an "acts_as_…" active_record plugin, https://github.com/mceachen/closure_tree, so the idea that I'd have to require all of rails instead of just active_record is unfortunate).

[alindeman]

Thanks for bringing this up. We do have some features now that switch based on Rails version. I will attempt to bring in only railties, which defines the version constant.

I'll get to this soon.

[mceachen]

Thanks!

[alindeman]

Should be fixed by 4ae113b. Please try the latest code from the 2-13-maintenance branch. It'd be superhelpful if you let me know if it works for you: if it does, I'll push out a 2.13.2 release.

[alindeman]

@mceachen Any chance you've been able to try this out?

[mceachen]

Yup—sorry for the delay, but this works for me:

cd /var/tmp
git clone https://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails.git
git checkout -b 2-13-maintenance
gem update --system # I had < 2.0, which had issues.
bundle
rake install

(I tried to just make a :git reference with a :branch name to gem.add_development_dependency but that doesn't seem to be supported?)

Removing the rails requirement from my spec_helper.rb then, correctly, does not cause an error.

Thanks a bunch for the fix!

[alindeman]

OK, great, I'll push a 2.13.2 shortly.

[alindeman]

And, yah, add_development_dependency does not have all of the same options as bundler's gem line.

In future you can keep gem.add_development_dependency 'rspec-rails', '...' in your .gemspec but temporarily add gem 'rspec-rails', github: 'rspec/rspec-rails', branch: '2-13-maintenance' to Gemfile.

[alindeman]

2.13.2 released.