JRuby 1.7.18 'bundle exec' command doesn't show any output

[anelson]

I'm running the latest Drip 0.25.0 with JRuby 1.7.18 on OS X Yosemite.

I have a simple Ruby gem library project which I'm running with JRuby. Part of my workflow includes running bundle exec rspec to run my RSpec tests.

bundle exec is a nasty little command. You can see from the Bundler source code at https://github.com/bundler/bundler/blob/d4bde24effb590c779969e9e723fd05682de4a14/lib/bundler/cli/exec.rb#L22 that it operates by mucking with the process environments variables a bit (to influence the Ruby load paths), and then basically reboots the JRuby instance by calling Kernel.exec. This is the equivalent of an exec method call.

If bundle exec is running in a JVM prepared by drip, very bad things happen. The exec call invokes calls drip just as if you'd typed a java command in the shell. The problem is that drip will then try pull another JVM out of the cache and run that as normal, which does not play well with the I/O redirection that drip uses to work. As a result, whatever command you passed to bundle exec, in my case rspec but it could be anything, runs but does not produce any output in the terminal window.

I think the correct behavior would be to detect this recursion and handle it differently. I've prepared a proof of concept fix which feels rather like a hack, but perhaps will prompt someone better versed in the art of shell scripting to suggest a proper solution. Pull request coming shortly.

[anelson]

Pull request containing a fix for this defect is https://github.com/ninjudd/drip/pull/89