puppet rspec no such file to load -- rspec-puppet (LoadError)
- by Vorsprung
I have no prior experience at all of ruby. I am not interested in ruby (and so have no knowledge of rails etc) as such but am using puppet to manage a group of servers. I have written some modules and the rspec-puppet system looks like it would be very useful.
However, I cannot get rspec-puppet to work
I am using Ubuntu LTS 10.04
I have installed puppet rspec using the directions on their web page
What I actually did
apt-get install rubygems # (installs 1.8)
gem install rspec-expectations
gem install rspec-puppet
I also installed librspec-ruby1.8
Then I ran rspec-puppet-init in a puppet module directory I'd already made (it's a working puppet module)
I made a file as defined in the tutorial
$ more spec/defines/rule_spec.rb
require 'spec_helper'
describe 'vanusers::rule' do
let(:title) { 't1' }
it { should contain_class('vanusers::JamieA') }
end
but when I try and run it there is a mysterious dependancy issue
$ spec spec/defines/rule_spec.rb
/home/jamie/git/puppet/modules/vanusers/spec/spec_helper.rb:1:in `require': no such file to load -- rspec-puppet (LoadError)
from /home/jamie/git/puppet/modules/vanusers/spec/spec_helper.rb:1
from ./spec/defines/rule_spec.rb:1:in `require'
from ./spec/defines/rule_spec.rb:1
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/spec/runner/example_group_runner.rb:15:in `load'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/spec/runner/example_group_runner.rb:15:in `load_files'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/spec/runner/example_group_runner.rb:14:in `each'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/spec/runner/example_group_runner.rb:14:in `load_files'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/spec/runner/options.rb:132:in `run_examples'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/spec/runner/command_line.rb:9:in `run'
from /usr/bin/spec:3
Here is the solution I came up with in the end::
apt-get install rubygems
gem install rspec-expectations rspec-puppet puppet-lint puppetlabs_spec_helper
so your path picks up the gem stuff
export PATH=/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin:$PATH
cd into module and
rm spec/spec_helper.rb
rspec-puppet-init
replace Rakefile with
require 'rake'
require 'rspec/core/rake_task'
require 'puppetlabs_spec_helper/rake_tasks'
Then "rake spec" to run tests or "rake lint" to check files
http://sysadvent.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/day-22-getting-started-testing-your.html
was an excellent source of info
