Bug #6804: test_generate_bin_bindir_with_user_install_warning(TestGemInstaller) fails on windows.

• Status: Closed
• Priority: Normal
• Assignee: luislavena (Luis Lavena)
• Target version: 2.0.0
• ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0dev (2012-07-27) [i386-mingw32]

[os97673 (Oleg Sukhodolsky)]

The test fails on Windows with the following error:
--- expected
+++ actual
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-""
+"WARNING: You don't have C:\Windows in your PATH,
+\t gem executables will not run.
+"

The problem is incorrect test in Gem::Installer.check_that_user_bin_dir_is_in_path()
It splits PATH by File::PATH_SEPARATOR and checks if the bin dir is included in this array.
But file system is case-insensitive on Windows (and may be case-insensitive on OS X too),
so it is incorrect way to compare these paths as string.
So, I suggest to compare them using File.identical? which should work correctly on any file system.

[luislavena (Luis Lavena)]

• Category set to test
• Status changed from Open to Closed

Thank you Oleg,

This issue has already been fixed in upstream RubyGems and will be part of release 1.8.25 (not yet released)