be_directory failing in serverspec test

Asked Oct 06 '16 at 16:59

Active Oct 07 '16 at 05:24

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I've got a very simple serverspec test below:

describe file('C:\\blah') do
  it { should exist }
  it { should be_directory }
end

However, the test is failing. I know that the directory exists. What's the deal?

     File "C:\blah"
       should exist (FAILED - 1)
       should be directory (FAILED - 2)

edited Oct 07 '16 at 05:24

Matthew Schuchard

asked Oct 06 '16 at 16:59

devlife

Try running the exact specinfra command: `Test-Path -Path C:\blah`. What is the output? – Matthew Schuchard Oct 06 '16 at 17:09
Yup I did indeed run that and it returns `true` – devlife Oct 06 '16 at 18:43
Serverspec is not related to Chef, do you have a question about Chef? – coderanger Oct 06 '16 at 20:55
Are you perhaps testing on a server other than what you think you are testing on? – Matthew Schuchard Oct 06 '16 at 23:18
Hmm maybe. I think I don't have the appropriate directory structure as shown here http://serverspec.org/tutorial.html. Does it actually matter if the test is in `spec/{host}/{recipe}_spec.rb` structure? I already have a `spec` folder where we have `chefspec` tests. – devlife Oct 07 '16 at 12:50
Your test is executing, but the question is how and where. You would need to show your `Rakefile` and maybe `spec_helper` to help with that. – Matthew Schuchard Oct 13 '16 at 16:44
make sure you're setting your spec_helper.rb correctly with: set :backend, :cmd set :os, :family => 'windows' – Onur Gokkocabas Dec 23 '16 at 21:02

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