Could not start Spork server for RSpec after 60 seconds...

[vinodadhikary]

Hi,

I'm trying to get RSpec, Spork and Guard to play nicely on Windows7 x64. My ruby version is 1.9.3p392 (2013-02-22) [i386-mingw32]

My problematic output is as follows:

20:51:46 - INFO - Guard uses Notifu to send notifications.
20:51:46 - INFO - Guard uses TerminalTitle to send notifications.

20:51:46 - INFO - Starting Spork for RSpec
Using RSpec, Rails
  -- Rinda Ring Server listening for connections...

  -- Starting to fill pool...
     Wait until at least one slave is provided before running tests...
  ** CTRL+BREAK to stop Spork and kill all ruby slave processes **
Spork is ready and listening on 8989!
   -- build slave 1...
   -- build slave 2...
Preloading Rails environment
Preloading Rails environment
Loading Spork.prefork block...
Loading Spork.prefork block...
Rack::File headers parameter replaces cache_control after Rack 1.5.
Rack::File headers parameter replaces cache_control after Rack 1.5.

20:57:47 - ERROR - Could not start Spork server for RSpec after 60 seconds. I will continue waiting for a further 120 seconds.
�]2;[Spork] RSpec NOT started. Continuing to wait for 120 seconds.�

The same configuration works really nicely in my linux box. Following is my Gemfile:

source 'https://rubygems.org'

gem 'rails', '3.2.12'
gem 'sqlite3'
gem 'jquery-rails'

# Development/Test groups gems
group :development, :test do
  # Required for SQL Server Database interactions
  gem 'activerecord'
  gem 'tiny_tds'
  gem 'activerecord-sqlserver-adapter'

  # Required for Unit/Integration testing
  gem 'rspec-rails'
  gem 'guard-rspec', '>= 1.2.1'
  gem 'guard-spork', '>= 1.2.0'
  gem 'spork', '>= 0.9.2'
  gem 'childprocess', '>= 0.3.6'
end

# Development group specific gems
group :development do 

  gem 'annotate', '>= 2.5.0' 
end

# Test group spedific gems
group :test do 
  gem 'capybara', '>= 1.1.2'
  gem 'rb-inotify', '~> 0.9', :platforms => :ruby
  gem 'libnotify', '>= 0.5.9', :platforms => :ruby
end

# Gems used only for assets and not required
# in production environments by default.
group :assets do
  gem 'sass-rails',   '~> 3.2.3'
  gem 'coffee-rails', '~> 3.2.1'

  # See https://github.com/sstephenson/execjs#readme for more supported runtimes
  gem 'therubyracer'
  gem 'execjs'

  gem 'uglifier', '>= 1.0.3'
end

# Production specific gems
group :production do 

end

Is this a known problem? If not then any clues are appreciated! Let me know if you need any further information regarding this issue.

Thanks

[nevir]

I ran into this because I was accidentially causing Spork's each_run block to trigger during initialization (that block causes spork to kill the current process at the end since it's forking)

[ghost]

Remove your test directory in your app or rename it to test_old.

[vinodadhikary]

Sorry @Sadik, I do not have test directory.