I asked this question on the rspec mailing list but didn't get a response, so I thought I'd try here.
Using rspec 1.3.2 and rspec-rails 1.3.4 with rails 2.3.11 on ruby 1.9.2-p180, when I
$ rake spec:models
they all pass. When I
$ rake spec:controllers
they all pass. When I
$ rake spec:views
they all pass. But when I
$ rake spec
I get
<path to gem>/activesupport-2.3.11/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:177: stack level too deep (SystemStackError)
I've been tinkering around with the rake file, and when I change
t.spec_files = FileList['spec/**/*_spec.rb']
in the default task to hit just one of the subdirectories, such as
t.spec_files = FileList['spec/models/**/*_spec.rb']
then rake spec works. I've done this for models, controllers, and views, and rake spec works fine for each. But including all of them like
t.spec_files = FileList['spec/models/**/*_spec.rb', 'spec/controllers/**/*_spec.rb', 'spec/views/**/*_spec.rb']
does not work (same error as mentioned above). Ironically, including just models and views does work:
t.spec_files = FileList['spec/models/**/*_spec.rb', 'spec/views/**/*_spec.rb']
but it seems that any combination including controllers will fail. This is odd to me since rake spec:controllers works. Unless it has something to do with the number of files and/or examples. The number of files and examples for each spec type is
models: 25 files, 391 examples
controllers: 26 files, 973 examples
views: 52 files, 508 examples
Using just rake spec did work on Ruby 1.8.7(-p302) and Ruby 1.9.1(-p243).
Does anyone have any ideas? I can run each group individually (and even create an alias to do it all at once), but then rspec has to spin up the app 3 times. Besides, that doesn't address why this isn't working on ruby 1.9.2.
