Re: help with running tests for rails using gems

[Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>]

On 06/02/2013 12:46 PM, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote:
> * Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net> [130602 18:31]:
>
>  From what I can see in the shoulda-matchers tests, the test
> application has a Gemfile.lock, which tries to pull in a version of
> "i18n" that is not in the Debian archive.
> For your tests to succeed, you'll need to Build-Depend on ruby-i18n,
> and I *think* remove the Gemfile.lock.
>
> My current stance on shipping packages that use Bundler to manage
> their dependencies, is, that one cannot ever ship a Gemfile.lock in
> a Debian package and expect things to work.

Reasonable stance.  That being said, the following sequence of commands 
produces the same error:

$ rm Gemfile.lock; git-buildpackage --git-ignore-new

In fact, one doesn't even need shoulda-matchers at all to reproduce this 
error.  The following command also suffices:

$ rails new foobar.

- Sam Ruby