Not able to build .NET Core Console Application in Linux

Question

I have this spec file which is trying to run a script which will run the dotnet cli program:

require 'spec_helper'

RSpec.describe 'Integration test', type: :aruba do
  let(:command) { run "dotnet-test" }

  it "test" do
    command.write("test\n")
    stop_all_commands
    expect(command.output).to end_with("success\n")
  end
end

dotnet-test script:

dotnet run --project ../SomeProject/src/SomeProject.Console/SomeProject.Console.csproj -- $1

But I get the error :

Failure/Error: expect(command.output).to end_with("success\n")
       expected "MSBUILD : error MSB1009: Project file does not exist.\nSwitch: ../SomeProject/src/SomeProject.Console/SomeProject.Console.csproj\n\nThe build failed. Please fix the build errors and run again.\n" to end with "success\n"

But if I run the script from that directory then program runs fine. Cannot figure out what could be the difference between the two. Help is really appreciated.

Answer 1

It sounds like the script you're trying to run relies on a relative path to execute correctly. In that case you may need to cd within your spec.

See https://relishapp.com/cucumber/aruba/docs/filesystem/change-current-working-directory

Try to use the absolute path of the file instead of

../SomeProject/src/SomeProject.Console/SomeProject.Console.csproj

Can you put the full path, something like:

/Users/yourusername/pathtosomeproject/SomeProject/src/SomeProject.Console/SomeProject.Console.csproj

Obviously you'll need to replace pathtosomeproject to where it is actually located.