Re: Running rack tests on Windows (both 1.9.3 and 2.0.0)

[Konstantin Haase <k.haase@finn.de>]

In related news: Work on windows support for Travis CI has started. It might take a bit, though.

Konstantin

On Nov 11, 2012, at 3:20 PM, Luis Lavena <luislavena@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've started to look into Rack (and its tests) on Windows just to ensure things are running as much properly as possible.
> 
> I found a few hardcoded values to temporary files (/tmp/rack_sendfile) that is blocking spec_sendfile.rb from executing.
> 
> Perhaps it will be good to use the system temporary directory instead?
> 
> Beyond that, and without installing any particular handlers, rack tests results in:
> 
> ruby 1.9.3p327 (2012-11-10) [i386-mingw32]
> 583 tests, 1761 assertions, 4 failures, 2 errors
> 
> ruby 2.0.0dev (2012-11-10 trunk 37612) [i386-mingw32]
> 583 tests, 1761 assertions, 5 failures, 2 errors
> 
> ruby 2.0.0dev (2012-11-10 trunk 37612) [x64-mingw32]
> 583 tests, 1761 assertions, 5 failures, 2 errors
> 
> See gist for full details:
> 
> https://gist.github.com/4054864
> 
> Do you think tests are incorrectly assuming details of the platform (test is not prepared to run on Windows) or do you think the failures are possible rack issues with Windows?
> 
> How would you like to proceed? I wanted to get the conversation going before invest more time on this.
> 
> Thank you.
> --
> Luis Lavena
>