“ERROR Errno::EPIPE: Broken pipe” with Culerity

Question

I've recently installed culerity to use on top of cucumber. But when I run my cucumber specs, they turn red (they were all green before).

The errors I get have this form:

Celerity::Exception::NavigationException: com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.FailingHttpStatusCodeException: 500 Internal Server Error for http://localhost:3001/ (Culerity::CulerityException) features/admin.feature:82:in `And I am logged in'

When I look at the web server console (launched by rake culerity:rails:start), the error is:

ERROR Errno::EPIPE: Broken pipe

I've noticed that these errors happen whenever I have cucumber steps (like "go to") that do $browser.goto.

Any idea ?

PS: I have made sure that JRuby is installed and in my path

Answer 1

i believe that an upgrade of jruby to a version matching the patch level of ruby that we were running solved our issue, we had to install jruby from source to get the right one

Answer 2

This is what the readme for the gem states:

I get a broken pipe error:

    * make sure JRuby is installed and in your path: running jruby -v should not 
produce an error

Answer 3

maybe this is related to the issue that i experienced: http://github.com/langalex/culerity/issues/#issue/29

Answer 4

We ran into a similar problem (broken pipe) with a Rails app on Bundler:

server = Culerity::run_server

didn't actually start the server, leaving

Culerity::RemoteBrowserProxy.new(server, …)

high and dry.

Turns out Bundler messes with RUBYOPT env var (see how Bundler modifies the environment for details), bin/run_celerity_server.rb (from the culerity gem) runs with JRuby as interpreter and JRuby honors RUBYOPT.

As Bundler is not a JRuby gem, the script does not start the server. Culerity::run_server must be invoked in a Bundler-free environment (i.e., with a clean RUBYOPT)