I ended up with rspec-1.3.0 and rspec-rails-1.2.9. They don't play well together: undefined method `handling_predicate!' for #<Spec::Matchers::Be:0xb5216370 @args=[:be_valid]> After upgrading rspec-rails the tests worked fine. I think we should for example add a blocker to rspec so that an update of rspec-rails is forced. Portage 2.2_rc62 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.32-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.32-gentoo-r1-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_920_@_2.67GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Unknown distcc 3.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r3, 2.6.4-r1, 3.1.1-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.0-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.0-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA PUEL dlj-1.1" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/var/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests ccache collision-protect distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms sign strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox verify-rdepend" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="fi en" MAKEOPTS="-j8" PKGDIR="/home/pkg/" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/mnt/checkouts/overlays/flameeyes-overlay /mnt/checkouts/overlays/openrc /mnt/checkouts/overlays/sunrise /mnt/checkouts/overlays/wschlich-testing /mnt/checkouts/overlays/finnish /mnt/checkouts/overlays/jokey /mnt/checkouts/overlays/x11 /mnt/checkouts/overlays/mozilla /mnt/checkouts/overlays/betelgeuse" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="a52 aac acl acpi alsa audiofile bash-completion bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo caps cdb cddb cdparanoia cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups custom-cxxflags cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread emboss evo fam ffmpeg firefox gif glib hal iconv ipv6 java jpeg kde kdehiddenvisibility libnotify logitech-mouse mad mikmod mjpeg mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap ncurses network nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf png ppds pppd pulseaudio qt3support quicktime readline reflection rtc samba semantic-desktop session spell spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification subversion svg symlink sysfs theora threads thunar tiff truetype udev unicode usb userlocales vim-syntax vorbis win32codecs x264 x86 xcb xcomposite xinerama xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fi en" NETBEANS_MODULES="ruby ide webcommon nb harness java websvccommon gsf" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="none radeon" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I've added a blocker to dev-ruby/rspec-1.3.0 on versions of rspec-rails older than this. Thanks for the suggestion.
