'C:' is not recognized as an internal or external command, (Windows Vista) about autotest

[grosser]

definitely a bug in autotest, do you have any more backtrace / hints what could be the problem ?

[jeygeethan]

I have tracked that the bug is because of the cmd being generated. In run_tests method of autotest.rb, the cmd being generated is the following :

C:\Ruby\bin\ruby -I.;lib;test -rubygems -e "['test/unit', 'test/test_unit_diff.rb', 'test/test_autotest.rb', 'test/test_autotest_integration.rb'].each { |f| require f }" | C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/autotest-4.4.5/bin/unit_diff -u

I think it should instead be

C:\Ruby\bin\ruby -I.;lib;test -rubygems -e "['test/unit', 'test/test_unit_diff.rb', 'test/test_autotest.rb', 'test/test_autotest_integration.rb'].each { |f| require f }" | unit_diff -u

because 'unit_diff' will be installed as a batch file in windows. Also, the slashes should be backward slashes in windows.

[grosser]

so just using backslashes would not work ?

[jeygeethan]

No it would not, because only unit_diff.rb is present in that directory and this cannot be run as a command. Instead if unit_diff is specified, it will run the batch file present in c:\ruby\bin

[grosser]

sounds strange, there should be unti_diff file, not unit_diff.rb, can you give the 'just replace backslashes' a try, would be nice if there could be less windows specific code

[jeygeethan]

Fixed