[Ruby] Autotest, rspec & Leopard

[Alex Vollmer]

I'm sure this has come up for somebody else, but I haven't found the  
answer yet. I upgraded to Leopard and decided to go with the ruby  
install (including gems) that comes with my shiny new OS. However, now  
I can't run autotest with rspec. When I do I get this error:

loading autotest/rspec
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.0.8/lib/autotest/rspec.rb:80:in  
`spec_command': No spec command could be found! (RspecCommandError)
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.0.8/lib/autotest/rspec.rb: 
10:in `initialize'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest-3.6.1/lib/autotest.rb:123:in  
`new'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest-3.6.1/lib/autotest.rb:123:in  
`run'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest-3.6.1/bin/autotest:48
	from /usr/bin/autotest:16:in `load'
	from /usr/bin/autotest:16

I've tried overriding the Autotest::Rspec.spec_commands method in my  
~/.autotest file with the correct path, but I just get a warning that  
the method has been redefined and my changes don't appear to take hold:

loading autotest/rspec
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.0.8/lib/autotest/rspec.rb:88:  
warning: method redefined; discarding old spec_commands
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.0.8/lib/autotest/rspec.rb:80:in  
`spec_command': No spec command could be found! (RspecCommandError)
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.0.8/lib/autotest/rspec.rb: 
10:in `initialize'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest-3.6.1/lib/autotest.rb:123:in  
`new'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest-3.6.1/lib/autotest.rb:123:in  
`run'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest-3.6.1/bin/autotest:48
	from /usr/bin/autotest:16:in `load'
	from /usr/bin/autotest:16

I found a post at http://www.luisdelarosa.com/2007/11/10/ruby-bugs-on-leopard/ 
  about fiddling with GEM_PATH and GEM_HOME, but these didn't make any  
difference. What are other Leopard-enabled folks doing? Should I  
abandon Apple's packaging and go back to MacPorts?

TIA,

Alex V.

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