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ServerSpec failing on Windows 7 when running tests

I recently tried to create a ServerSpec job, using Ruby 2.1.6 for Windows. However, using the code at the following GitHub repo, I get the following errors. 

C:\Users\PD028300\Desktop\serverspec_test\windows_spec
λ rake spec
C:/Ruby/Ruby21-x64/bin/ruby.exe -I'C:/Ruby/Ruby21-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-support-3.2.2/lib';'C:/Ruby/Ruby21-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.2.3/lib' 'C:/Ruby/Ruby21-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.2.3/exe/rspec' --pattern 'spec/localhost/*_spec.rb'
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File "C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts"
  should be file (FAILED - 1)
  content (FAILED - 2)

Failures:

  1) File "C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts" should be file
     On host `localhost'
     Failure/Error: it { should be_file }
     TypeError:
       no implicit conversion of Symbol into Integer
       uname -s
       MINGW32_NT-6.1

     # ./spec/localhost/hosts_spec.rb:4:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

  2) File "C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts" content
     On host `localhost'
     Failure/Error: it(:content) { should match /localhost/ }
       expected File "C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts" to match /localhost/
       Diff:
       @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
       -/localhost/
       +File "C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts"


     # ./spec/localhost/hosts_spec.rb:5:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

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Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/localhost/hosts_spec.rb:4 # File "C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts" should be file
rspec ./spec/localhost/hosts_spec.rb:5 # File "C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts" content

C:/Ruby/Ruby21-x64/bin/ruby.exe -I'C:/Ruby/Ruby21-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-support-3.2.2/lib';'C:/Ruby/Ruby21-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.2.3/lib' 'C:/Ruby/Ruby21-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/rspec-core-3.2.3/exe/rspec' --pattern 'spec/localhost/*_spec.rb' failed

Is this something to do with the file I'm trying to describe, being that its the hosts file on a Windows machine?

Solution

  • Going back and recreating the ServerSpec file, it still didn't work. After a re-reading the tutorial, http://serverspec.org/tutorial.html and https://github.com/serverspec/serverspec/blob/master/WINDOWS_SUPPORT.md , I added the OS family setting in the spec_helper.rb and it started working.

    The final result of the spec_helper.rb is: 

    require 'serverspec'

set :backend, :cmd
set :os, :family => 'windows'

    Now the spec's I made worked! Just make sure to require the spec_helper