Moving CI to github actions & trying to get it green

It seems like rails 6.1 broke rspec-rails.
RSpec-rails 4.0 fixed it with rspec/rspec-rails#2215 then fixed differently with rspec/rspec-rails#2461
so we skip rspec-rails >4 with rails 6.1 in CI

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+name: Ammeter CI
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - 'main'
+      - 'gitub-action-ci'
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - '*'
+jobs:
+  test:
+    name: 'Ruby: ${{ matrix.ruby }}, Rails: ${{ matrix.env.RAILS_VERSION }}'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+       include:
+         - ruby: 2.7
+           env:
+             RSPEC_VERSION: '~> 4.0'
+             RAILS_VERSION: '~> 6.1.0'
+    env: ${{ matrix.env }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: ruby/setup-ruby@v1
+        with:
+          ruby-version: ${{ matrix.ruby }}
+      - run: bundle install
+      - run: bundle exec rake ci
+        continue-on-error: ${{ matrix.allow_failure || false }}

Gemfile

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-source "http://rubygems.org"
+source 'https://rubygems.org'
 
-rspec_version = ENV['RSPEC_VERSION']
-rspec_major_version = (rspec_version && rspec_version != 'master') ? rspec_version.scan(/\d+/).first : '3'
+rspec_version = ENV['RSPEC_VERSION'] || '~> 4.0'
+rails_version = ENV['RAILS_VERSION'] || '>= 5.1.0'
 
 if rspec_version == 'master'
   gem "rspec-rails", :git => 'git://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails.git'
@@ -13,38 +13,16 @@ if rspec_version == 'master'
   gem "rspec-support", :git => 'git://github.com/rspec/rspec-support.git'
 else
   gem 'rspec-rails', rspec_version
-  gem 'rspec',       rspec_version
 end
 
-if rspec_major_version == '2' || RUBY_VERSION.to_f < 1.9
-  # rspec 2.x does not support Rails 4.1+ nor does Ruby 1.8.7
-  gem 'rails', '~> 3.2'
-  gem 'uglifier', '~> 1.2.4'
-  gem 'rake', '~> 0.9.2.2'
-  gem 'coffee-rails', '~> 3.2'
-  gem 'sass-rails', '~> 3.2'
-  gem 'jquery-rails', '~> 2.0'
-  gem 'haml-rails', '~> 0.4'
-  gem 'execjs', '~> 2.0.0'
-elsif rspec_major_version == '3'
-  if RUBY_VERSION < '2.2.2'
-    gem 'rails', '< 5.0' # rails 5 is ruby >= 2.2.2
-  else
-    gem 'rails', '>= 4.0'
-  end
-  gem 'uglifier', '>= 1.3'
-  gem 'rake', '>= 0.10'
-  gem 'coffee-rails', '>= 4.0'
-  gem 'sass-rails', '>= 4.0'
-  gem 'jquery-rails', '>= 3.0'
-  gem 'haml-rails', '>= 0.5'
-else
-  raise "rspec version #{rspec_version} is not supported"
-end
-
-gem "i18n", '< 0.7.0' if RUBY_VERSION < '1.9.3'
-gem "rack", '<= 1.6.4' if RUBY_VERSION < '2.2.2'
+gem 'rails', rails_version
+gem 'uglifier'
+gem 'rake'
+gem 'coffee-rails'
+gem 'sass-rails'
+gem 'jquery-rails'
+gem 'haml-rails'
 
-# Specify your gem's dependencies in rspec-rails-generator-specs.gemspec
+# Specify your gem's dependencies in ammeter.gemspec
 gemspec
 

Rakefile

@@ -42,13 +42,12 @@ end
 namespace :generate do
   desc "generate a fresh app with rspec installed"
   task :app => :ensure_bundler_11 do |t|
-    sh "bundle exec rails new ./tmp/example_app -m 'features/templates/generate_example_app.rb' --skip-test-unit"
+    sh "bundle exec rails new ./tmp/example_app -m 'features/templates/generate_example_app.rb' --skip-test-unit --skip-bootsnap --skip-spring --skip-webpack-install"
     sh "cp 'features/templates/rspec.rake' ./tmp/example_app/lib/tasks"
     Dir.chdir("./tmp/example_app/") do
       Bundler.unbundled_system 'bundle install'
       Bundler.unbundled_system 'rake db:migrate'
       Bundler.unbundled_system 'rails g rspec:install'
-      Bundler.unbundled_system 'spring stop'
     end
   end
 

ammeter.gemspec

@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.add_runtime_dependency 'activesupport', '>= 3.0'
   s.add_runtime_dependency 'rspec-rails',   '>= 2.2'
 
-  s.add_runtime_dependency 'bootsnap'
-
   s.add_development_dependency 'rspec',        '>= 2.2'
   s.add_development_dependency 'rails',        '>= 3.1'
   s.add_development_dependency 'uglifier',     '>= 1.2.4'

features/support/env.rb

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ def copy_to_aruba_from(gem_or_app_name)
   if rspec_major_version == '2'
     # rspec 2.x does not create rails_helper.rb so we create a symlink to avoid cluttering tests
     write_symlink("tmp/#{gem_or_app_name}/spec/spec_helper.rb", gem_or_app_name, 'rails_helper.rb')
-  elsif rspec_major_version == '3'
+  elsif rspec_major_version >= '3'
     write_symlink("tmp/#{gem_or_app_name}/spec/rails_helper.rb", gem_or_app_name)
   end
 end

features/templates/generate_example_app.rb

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
   gem "rspec-support", :git => 'git://github.com/rspec/rspec-support.git'
 else
   gem 'rspec-rails', rspec_version
-  gem 'rspec',       rspec_version
 end
 
 gem "i18n", '< 0.7.0' if RUBY_VERSION < '1.9.3'

features/templates/my_rails_gem/Gemfile

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 source 'https://rubygems.org'
 
-rspec_version = ENV['RSPEC_VERSION']
-rspec_major_version = (rspec_version && rspec_version != 'master') ? rspec_version.scan(/\d+/).first : '3'
+rspec_version = ENV['RSPEC_VERSION'] || '~> 4.0'
+rails_version = ENV['RAILS_VERSION'] || '>= 5.1.0'
 
 if rspec_version == 'master'
   gem "rspec-rails", :git => 'git://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails.git'
@@ -13,19 +13,9 @@ if rspec_version == 'master'
   gem "rspec-support", :git => 'git://github.com/rspec/rspec-support.git'
 else
   gem 'rspec-rails', rspec_version
-  gem 'rspec',       rspec_version
-end
-
-if rspec_major_version == '2' || RUBY_VERSION.to_f < 1.9
-  gem 'rails', '~> 3.2.0'
-  # Execjs is causing problems on 1.8.7
-  gem 'execjs', '~> 2.0.0'
-elsif rspec_major_version == '3'
-  gem 'rails', '>= 4.1'
-else
-  raise "rspec version #{rspec_version} is not supported"
 end
 
+gem 'rails', rails_version
 
 # Specify your gem's dependencies in my_gem.gemspec
 gemspec

features/templates/my_railties_gem/Gemfile

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 source 'https://rubygems.org'
 
-rspec_version = ENV['RSPEC_VERSION']
-rspec_major_version = (rspec_version && rspec_version != 'master') ? rspec_version.scan(/\d+/).first : '3'
+rspec_version = ENV['RSPEC_VERSION'] || '~> 4.0'
+rails_version = ENV['RAILS_VERSION'] || '>= 5.1.0'
 
 if rspec_version == 'master'
   gem "rspec-rails", :git => 'git://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails.git'
@@ -13,19 +13,9 @@ if rspec_version == 'master'
   gem "rspec-support", :git => 'git://github.com/rspec/rspec-support.git'
 else
   gem 'rspec-rails', rspec_version
-  gem 'rspec',       rspec_version
-end
-
-if rspec_major_version == '2' || RUBY_VERSION.to_f < 1.9
-  gem 'railties', '~> 3.2.0'
-  # Execjs is causing problems on 1.8.7
-  #gem 'execjs', '~> 2.0.0'
-elsif rspec_major_version == '3'
-  gem 'railties', '>= 4.1'
-else
-  raise "rspec version #{rspec_version} is not supported"
 end
 
+gem 'railties', rails_version
 
 # Specify your gem's dependencies in my_gem.gemspec
 gemspec