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Amazon S3, Ruby, and the failing tests
Posted by Giovanni Intini | Filed under AmazonS3, Programming, Ruby
A friend of mine, Jeko, introduced me to Amazon S3, praising the Ruby support, and the ease of use. So when Gabriele Renzi suggested me a potential wonderful use for S3 (still secret, sorry) I decided to give it a try and downloaded the Ruby sample libraries.
Unfortunately all the tests were failing, and that made me unhappy. What made it strange was that the first time I ran the tests I two errors, and the second time I ran them the first error was replaced by another one.
I dag into the code and found a simple but effective fix for all the problems.
The first-error-replacement was caused by a non emptying of the test Bucket after the tests failed. I edited the setup method in the test suite to look like this:
def setup @conn = S3::AWSAuthConnection.new(AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY) @conn.list_bucket(BUCKET_NAME).entries.each do |object| @conn.delete(BUCKET_NAME, object.key) end @conn.delete_bucket(BUCKET_NAME) end
Now I kept getting the same error but it was an easy fix: edit line 534 of S3.rb to look like this:
@properties.name = @curr_text.strip
With this two fixes the test suite runs correctly (I can’t certify its validity though 
). After a succesful test run you can remove the fixes to the setup method, because it keeps working fine, but I would leave them untouched, you never know if there’s a problem in a test 