Not able to run tests locally

[haikyuu]

I'm trying to run edgedb-js tests, but I run into

❯ yarn test         
Determining test suites to run...
Starting EdgeDB test cluster...
Node status file: /var/folders/nb/29vclp9d5494mj6lj4786m2w0000gn/T/edgedb-js-status-file-node-991107731
/bin/sh: edgedb-server: command not found
Error: Command failed: edgedb-server --help

I don't have edgedb-server in my path (installed using the official curl ... command)

I changed the server command in edgedb-js to edgedb server But I get the following error

❯ yarn test
Determining test suites to run...
Starting EdgeDB test cluster...
Node status file: /var/folders/nb/29vclp9d5494mj6lj4786m2w0000gn/T/edgedb-js-status-file-node-118423014
node:events:368
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: spawn edgedb server ENOENT
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:282:19)
    at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:477:16)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:83:21)
Emitted 'error' event on ChildProcess instance at:
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:288:12)
    at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:477:16)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:83:21) {
  errno: -2,
  code: 'ENOENT',
  syscall: 'spawn edgedb server',
  path: 'edgedb server',
  spawnargs: [
    '--auto-shutdown',
    '--bind-address=127.0.0.1',
    '--bind-address=::1',
    '--temp-dir',
    '--testmode',
    '--port=auto',
    '--emit-server-status=/var/folders/nb/29vclp9d5494mj6lj4786m2w0000gn/t/edgedb-js-status-file-node-118423014',
    "--bootstrap-command=ALTER ROLE edgedb { SET password := 'edgedbtest' }"
  ]
}

[jaclarke]

It's failing because edgedb-server is an actual edgedb server binary, while edgedb server is a cli command to manage those binaries.

To run the tests without setting up an edgedb dev instance (https://www.edgedb.com/docs/reference/dev#building-locally), which would give you edgedb-server in your PATH, you can instead get the path to one of these installed binaries using the edgedb server info command, then run the tests with the EDGEDB_SERVER_BIN env var like this:

$ edgedb server info --latest
┌─────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Version     │ 1.3+5d0197d                                                    │
│ Binary path │ /home/james/.local/share/edgedb/portable/1.3/bin/edgedb-server │
└─────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

$ env EDGEDB_SERVER_BIN=/home/james/.local/share/edgedb/portable/1.3/bin/edgedb-server yarn test

[samwinslow]

I ran into this issue (on MacOS) even though I provided a path to edgedb-server with EDGEDB_SERVER_BIN.

On MacOS, it seems the default location is ~/Library/Application Support/edgedb/portable/2.0/bin/edgedb-server, and the space in the name of the Application Support directory caused problems, even when escaped with a backslash.

I solved this by symlinking the 2.0 directory to ~/edgedb-2.0-portable and then pointing the env var to the new location (symlink name is arbitrary, but should not contain spaces).

[scotttrinh]

@samwinslow @haikyuu

Having whitespace in the path is fixed on master as of #582