Hi,
I'm trying to package up a new version of my app's Gem, but am having a bit of a mindbending problem with installing the Gem, specifically running:
gem install --test [package-base-name]
(with the package in the same directory)
performs the installation, but gives me 1 error on the unit-tests, which I wouldn't mind but they all pass when I run them from Rake, in the project. I tried also with testrb (all pass) and also with Rake in the unpacked installed Gem directory (again, all pass).
I think I managed to track it down to a specific place in the code, which is the following (I'm pretty sure, but I couldn't find a way to get Gems to give an error backtrace for this - I just did some puts debugging):
require 'rdoc/markup/simple_markup'
require 'rdoc/markup/simple_markup/to_html'
# ...
p = SM::SimpleMarkup.new
h = SM::ToHtml.new
result = p.convert(result, h)
(Extracted from http://rubyforge.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/rote/lib/rote/page.rb?rev=1.5&cvsroot=rote)
I put a begin/rescue around the failing test-case, and 'p'd the exception out, which gave me:
#<RuntimeError: Unhandled special: Special: type=17, text="RDoc">
As I say, this doesn't appear at all when running tests from Rake or with testrb, and RDoc rendering works fine the rest of the time. If anyone can shed any light, I'd be most grateful 
(Also, as an aside, should I be considering this a big problem? Is it common to run tests while installing a Gem, or do most people run them separately as needed? Also, does Gem keep error reports and so on from installations, for future reference?)
Thanks in advance for any help,
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Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.remove.co.uk