petekinnecom/test_launcher

Does it not work on windows?

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stt106 commented

Does the VS code extension not work on windows?

petekinnecom commented

I'm not sure...

There's two parts to using it with vscode:

I would expect that the extension works on windows, since it just uses vscode's built in terminal API.

I would expect that the gem probably does not. It's quite likely that it makes some assumption about having a unix-ish filesystem underneath it. Maybe it would work with cygwin? Not sure. I don't have a windows environment to test this on.

Have you tried installing the gem and trying a command or two?

stt106 commented

I did install the gem but it still doesn't work.
In fact, I also tried on Linux and it just says test_launcher command can't be found despite having the gem installed.
Will try on macOS to see whether it works.

petekinnecom commented

I've tested the gem on linux and it works there, so I'm guessing that something is going on with your shell and which ruby it's trying to use. Some things to check on Linux:

  • How did you install ruby? Did you use rvm, rbenv, chruby, or use your distribution's package manager?
  • In a terminal outside of vscode, does this run successfully? gem install test_launcher && test_launcher --help
  • If it works in a non-vscode terminal, then it may be the case that the shell in vscode is not using the correct ruby. Try a ruby -v in both a terminal inside of vscode and outside of vscode and make sure they are the same. (If they are, maybe even do a which ruby in both places to be double sure).
petekinnecom commented

closing since I haven't heard anything for a while