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Autotest will not stop after a test failure?

Here is my gemfile

source 'http://rubygems.org' gem 'rails', '3.0.9' gem 'mysql2', '~> 0.2.6' group :development do gem 'rspec-rails' end group :test do gem 'rspec' end

Pretty simple and nothing out of the ordinary. On a passing test, the autotest works fine and stops, as if it should

 Finished in 0.1158 seconds 4 examples, 0 failures /Users/alex/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/bin/ruby -rrubygems -S /Users/alex/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@rails3/gems/rspec-core-2.6.4/bin/rspec --tty '/Users/alex/Sites/slacklog/spec/controllers/pages_controller_spec.rb'

but when the test fails in its infinite loop that continues to fail

 Failures: 1) PagesController GET 'contact' Should have the proper title for the contact page Failure/Error: response.should have_selector( "contact", expected following output to contain a <contact>Contact us</contact> tag: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <title>Slacklog</title> <script src="/javascripts/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script src="/javascripts/jquery_ujs.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script src="/javascripts/application.js?1309037322" type="text/javascript"></script> </head> <body> <h1>Pages#contact</h1> <p>Find me in app/views/pages/contact.html.erb</p> </body> </html> # ./spec/controllers/pages_controller_spec.rb:32:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>' Finished in 0.16647 seconds 5 examples, 1 failure Failed examples: rspec ./spec/controllers/pages_controller_spec.rb:30 # PagesController GET 'contact' Should have the proper title for the contact page /Users/alex/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p180/bin/ruby -rrubygems -S /Users/alex/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p180@rails3/gems/rspec-core-2.6.4/bin/rspec --tty '/Users/alex/Sites/slacklog/spec/controllers/pages_controller_spec.rb' ...F. Failures:

He keeps repeating

how to stop this behavior

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ruby-on-rails ruby-on-rails-3 rspec autotest
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There is a duplicate question that has the correct fix: Auto test in an infinite loop

The answer did not fix this for me, but it was because I used webrat and webrat.log was created, causing the tests to restart. So I changed their answer to include webrat.log

Here is a modified solution:

I have found a solution. This is probably due to OSX (running this on Leopard) with changing the .DS_Store file in a folder or another temporary file. Adding the following to my .autotest did the trick (this also prevents automatic searching in the index folder created by Ferret).

 Autotest.add_hook :initialize do |at| %w{.git webrat.log vendor index .DS_Store ._}.each {|exception| at.add_exception(exception)} end
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I had the same problem. Try to remove your ZenTest stone and reinstall it through the dependencies as:

 sudo gem install autotest-rails sudo gem install rspec-rails
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Just fixed it by putting the following in my .autotest I know this is pretty late, but I hope this helps someone .autotest

 at.add_exception %r{^./log}

My .autotest now looks like

 # ./.autotest Autotest.add_hook(:initialize) {|at| at.add_exception %r{^\.git} # ignore Version Control System at.add_exception %r{^./tmp} # ignore temp files, lest autotest will run again, and again... at.add_exception %r{^./spec/controllers} # ignore controllers until cache has been fixed. auto test taking too long for now at.add_exception %r{^./log} # ignore temp files, lest autotest will run again, and again... # at.clear_mappings # take out the default (test/test*rb) at.add_mapping(%r{^lib/.*\.rb$}) {|f, _| Dir['spec/**/*_spec.rb'] } nil } require 'autotest/inotify'
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