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OSGi DevCon @ JAX London

February 23 - Keynote titled OSGi in the Enterprise: Agility, Modularity, and Architecture’s Paradox

March 22 - 25 - Tutorial on Modular Architecture

June 14 - 17 - Sessions titled Turtles and Architecture and Patterns of Modular Architecture

July 26 - 30 - Two sessions on rich mobile applications and one on agile development. Half day tutorial on software process improvement.

Gearing up for lots of conversation today. Mobile dev., app arch., and some questions for @springrod. Plus a video shoot. #cat10 22 hrs ago

Great feedback on RMA sessions at #cat10 today. Lot's of fun. Look forward to more interaction on the topic tomorrow (and tonight perhaps)! 1 day ago

.@atmanes Did I say "process"? Meant "progress". in reply to atmanes 1 day ago

RT @dalmaer RT @lukew: Comic: the real reason you should design for Mobile First! http://bit.ly/bhKSV6 #thanksron 1 week ago

anyone know if current webOS version (1.4.1.1?) fixes the aGPS problem on Verizon? Does Google Maps lockin the location efficiently? 1 week ago

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Here’s the test task in my rake file. Works on Windows, but not on my Mac. It just hangs. What’s the problem?

Rake::TestTask.new do |t|
  t.libs << "./app;./test"
  t.test_files = FileList['test/test*.rb']
  t.verbose = true
end

Two hours later, I tell you that I need this on my Mac.

Rake::TestTask.new do |t|
  t.libs << "./app:./test"
  t.test_files = FileList['test/test*.rb']
  t.verbose = true
end

See the difference? Semi-colon…colon…Wow…

6 Responses to “Rake TestTask Hangs”

Robert Fischer on August 11th, 2007 3:48 pm

Does Rake have some kind of OS-sensitive path-maker function? That’s the kind of difficult-to-debug problem which could really use some abstraction…
kirk on August 13th, 2007 2:31 am

Obviously not that I know of…:-). I made the same mistake in Java a while back with the file separator, and quickly changed my code to use the system property instead of hardcoding the back/forward slash.
Bruce Williams on August 20th, 2007 2:10 am

IIRC, Ruby automatically converts file path separators for file operations (so using / vs \ isn’t a problem and there’s no need to use File::SEPARATOR).

As to this problem — I’ve never seen someone try a colon/semicolon, environment variable style — I’m more surprised it worked at all (since it’s $: that’s being modified). I’d use t.libs += %w(app lib), and skip the ./s, since they’re superfluous.
Bruce Williams on August 20th, 2007 2:12 am

I meant t.libs += %w(app test), obviously
kirk on August 21st, 2007 1:26 pm

Bruce,

I’m pretty sure I picked up the syntax from the Pickaxe book. While I enjoy Ruby, I’m no expert, so thanx for the tip on a better way of doing things.
Bruce Williams on August 22nd, 2007 9:36 pm

Kirk, np

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