Merge branch 'trap-abnormal-exits' into rails-3-develop

3 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/spec/lib/alaveteli_external_command.rb b/spec/lib/alaveteli_external_command.rb
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+require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper')
+
+require 'alaveteli_external_command'
+
+script_dir = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'alaveteli_external_command_scripts')
+segfault_script = File.join(script_dir, 'segfault.sh')
+error_script = File.join(script_dir, 'error.sh')
+
+describe "when running external commands" do
+
+    it "should detect a non-zero exit status" do
+        $stderr.should_receive(:puts).with(/Error from/)
+        t = AlaveteliExternalCommand.run(error_script)
+        assert_nil t
+    end
+
+    it "should detect when an external command crashes" do
+        $stderr.should_receive(:puts).with(/exited abnormally/)
+        t = AlaveteliExternalCommand.run(segfault_script)
+        assert_nil t
+    end
+
+end
diff --git a/spec/lib/alaveteli_external_command_scripts/error.sh b/spec/lib/alaveteli_external_command_scripts/error.sh
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+++ b/spec/lib/alaveteli_external_command_scripts/error.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+echo "this is my error message" >&1
+exit 1
diff --git a/spec/lib/alaveteli_external_command_scripts/segfault.sh b/spec/lib/alaveteli_external_command_scripts/segfault.sh
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+++ b/spec/lib/alaveteli_external_command_scripts/segfault.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+kill -11 $$