[Uw-ruby] autotest qwirky?

[Ryan Ward]

Hi Ryan,

Having some qwirks using autotest...

  Both homework files open in my editor (test_weekX.rb and weekX.rb).  
I have terminal running with autotest in the background. I make a  
change to weekX.rb hit save, then watch autotest detect the change.

In this case  #2 kept failing over and over and I couldn't figure out  
why.  Could swear my code looked ok. I did some more muckin around  
with my code, saving again, then decided to revert back to my original  
code and then saving once more. All of a sudden the test started  
passing with the exact same code when the test failed.

2) Failure:
test_find_all_evens(TestWeek4) [test/test_week4.rb:44]:
--- /var/folders/T3/T3JeDhXpGXSZWZV0lFaRTE+++TI/-Tmp-/expect.4006.0	 
2007-11-18 20:18:09.000000000 -0800
+++ /var/folders/T3/T3JeDhXpGXSZWZV0lFaRTE+++TI/-Tmp-/butwas.4006.0	 
2007-11-18 20:18:09.000000000 -0800
@@ -1 +1 @@
-<[2, 4, 6, 8]>
+<nil>


I have noticed this in many times now, in previous weeks home work as  
well. Is there some sort of caching happening in autotest, or maybe  
this is Textmate doing something weird with saves? Or some user error?

Thanks Ryan

-R