[PDK-983] PDK test unit on windows tries to create c:\dev - Puppet Tickets

Details

Type: Bug
Status: Closed
Priority: Normal
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: PDK 1.6.0
Component/s: None
Labels:
- resolved-issue-added

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Epic Link:
PDK Maintenance
Team:
Puppet Developer Experience
Method Found:
Needs Assessment

Release Notes:
Bug Fix
Release Notes Summary:

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There is a bug in Puppet that attempts to initialize a test environment in `/dev/null`, which causes an error on Windows, since `/dev/null` is a *nix convention. This fix will be made to rspec-puppet to override the `/dev/null` values when running on Windows and change the values to `NUL`.

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There is a bug in Puppet that attempts to initialize a test environment in `/dev/null`, which causes an error on Windows, since `/dev/null` is a *nix convention. This fix will be made to rspec-puppet to override the `/dev/null` values when running on Windows and change the values to `NUL`.

QA Risk Assessment:
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Description

On a VMPooler win2012 machine:

create a test user that is not a administrator
add the test user to the "Remote Desktop Users" group
Set the permissions on C:\ to "Subfolders only" for "create directories/append content" for the Users group
in a powershell:
- pdk new module some_name
- cd some_name
- pdk new class some_name
- pdk test unit

Executing 'ruby C:/Users/jbird12/Desktop/modulename/bin/rake spec[]'

...

failed: rspec: ./spec/classes/modulename_spec.rb:23: Permission denied @ dir_s_mkdir - C:/dev

undefined method `clear' for nil:NilClass

If you are not an administrator user, you won't be able to create folders on the C:\ drive. I think this is within rspec that is causing it, but not sure who should fix it.

After much struggle, I could get a proper stacktrace out of ruby: