Under what circumstances would a Ruby $LOAD_PATH be acquired from a parent process?
- by Dr Nic
In my cucumber scenarios, if I call rake db:schema:load within a target Rails app folder, I get the cucumber process's $LOAD_PATH and not the Rails app's own Gemfile/load path. I think this is very weird.
The consequence is that I get the following error:
no such file to load -- rails/all
I can't reproduce it outside of my cucumber scenario.
ruby -rubygems -e "system 'rake -T'"
works normally - the 'rake -T' has the application's own Gemfile-based $LOAD_PATH; and doesn't generate the error above.
Can anyone think why a child process (rake -T or rake db:schema:load or rails runner...; invoked by either system, exec, %x[...] or backtick; would start with the parent processes' $LOAD_PATH (from the cucumber scenario's Gemfile) instead of its own $LOAD_PATH (from the Rails app's Gemfile)?
