Now that we have shaved the yak of generate-puppetfile, it’s time to move my rspec tests to the top of the controlrepo, as discussed on Thursday. To do so, we need to move not just the spec tests, but also the files Rakefile, .rspec, .rubocop.yml, and create a facsimile metadata.json, and of course, generate a new .fixtures.yml.

Moving the files is pretty simple. In my controlrepo, I only have a profile class with tests, so I’m going to take those as-is. We do want to make sure that we start with a clean environment, we don’t want to copy a bunch of fixtures or other temp files. We could use git clean -ffdxn; if you don’t want to redownload your gems you can manually clean up the relevant directories. Then we can do the file shuffle:

$ git clean -ffdxn
Would remove .bundle/
Would remove Gemfile.lock
Would remove coverage/
Would remove dist/profile/spec/fixtures/manifests/
Would remove dist/profile/spec/fixtures/modules/
Would remove vendor/
$ rm -fR dist/profile/spec/fixtures/manifests/ dist/profile/spec/fixtures/modules/
$ git mv dist/profile/spec ./
$ git mv dist/profile/{Rakefile,.rspec,.rubocop.yml} ./

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As I discussed on Thursday, I am looking to re-architect the layout of my controlrepo’s rspec tests. Of course, there were yaks to shave, first. To that end, I’ve released version 0.10.0 of generate-puppetfile (rubygem, github project) with the added ability to run generate-puppetfile --create-fixtures at the top of your controlrepo and generate a .fixtures.yml that will set up symlinks for all of the modules contained in your controlrepo. This functionality is based off the existence of the file environment.conf in the current directory and it containing a modulepath stanza. All the paths in the modulepath are explored and symlink-type fixtures created for each module found. Previous functionality when run inside a module directory is still preserved, of course.

Because the project has not reached version 1.0.0 yet, I have renamed the option --fixtures to --create-fixtures. This is in preparation for a feature request for an --only-fixtures feature request.

Let’s look at how to use this new feature. Before we start, we must be at the top level of the controlrepo. Next, we need environment.conf to have a modulepath stanza. In my controlrepo, the file looks like this:

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I was having a problem yesterday with a specific rspec test that was failing for my puppet tool generate-puppetfile, and I couldn’t understand why. I was expecting an exitcode of 0 but was receiving 1, so obviously I had an issue, but I couldn’t see the accompanying error message. When I attempted to run the command myself, it succeeded, so I was pretty sure the issue was with either argument handling by my program or more likely, the way I wrote my rspec test (spoiler:  it was in my rspec!). Here’s what the rspec test looked like to start with:

  context 'when creating fixtures' do
    let :args do
        'rnelson0/certs'
        '--create-fixtures'
    end

    its(:exitstatus) { is_expected.to eq(0) }
    it 'should create .fixtures.yml' do
      File.exists? './.fixtures.yml'
    end
  end

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