Upgrade to Rails 4 led to rspec output hanging

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I've upgraded to Rails 4.0.0 from Rails 3.2.13. I fixed all the deprecation warnings (except for secret_base_key), upgraded database_cleaner, rspec, rspec-rails, capybara, selenium-webdriver and poltergeist to the latest versions.

Now, when I run my specs, through rake or rspec, the output of rspec eventually hangs, always on a feature test (a javascript one). The output of test.log is clear: the tests are still running, but the console is not getting any updates.

I am using:

phantomjs 1.9.2.
poltergeist 1.4.1

Thoughts on how I can get my test suite to behave normally again?

sure, that you did not leave any debugger, pry or sleep statements in the code? — phoet, Oct 23 '13 at 14:37
I just checked. There are a few sleep statements, but they are a few seconds at worst. — Trevoke, Oct 23 '13 at 14:50
It hangs on any of six feature tests, all of them "js: true". — Trevoke, Oct 23 '13 at 15:06
might be some problem with your javascript drivers. did you try re-installing them? what do you use? selenium or some headless driver? — phoet, Oct 23 '13 at 15:08
yeah, i know that and used it successfully with rails4. are you using the latest phantomjs build? — phoet, Oct 23 '13 at 16:40

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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I had the same problem, but with capybara-webkit.

I found the solution here: webkit_server hangs periodically when run from Capybara in Ruby

# Gemfile
group :test do
  gem 'thin'
end

# spec_helper.rb
Capybara.javascript_driver = :webkit
Capybara.server do |app, port|
  require 'rack/handler/thin'
  Rack::Handler::Thin.run(app, :Port => port)
end

edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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answered Nov 03 '13 at 00:12

Lasse Skindstad Ebert

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great solution.. have you found a way to silence the test startup though? I'm now getting Thin noise http://d.pr/i/N7dh – noli Jan 19 '14 at 10:25
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No, I also get the noise inside my spec output. Mine is not as visible, as I run rspec with "-f doc" parameter (see what that means here: https://www.relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-core/v/2-6/docs/command-line/format-option#documentation-format) – Lasse Skindstad Ebert Jan 19 '14 at 21:14

Upgrade to Rails 4 led to rspec output hanging

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