Buzzwords! Specification & Examples

Hey Emakina F.!

Ah! I don't like that error at all! Do you have a connection() method anywhere in your code? I thought at first that this error might be some low-level error coming from phpspec. But, if I search the entire vendor/ directory of this project, I don't see any method called "connection()". So I'm wondering if this might be referring to something in your code?

Cheers!

Thanks weaverryan for response.

I don't have that method in my code and I don't have any idea about that. When I started with pure PHP & PHPSpec it works well, but when I tried to use PHPSpec on Slim Framework entities it failed. I thought it might be Slim related.

Hey Emakina F. !

Hmm. Indeed. Doing some quick googling, it looks like it could be from Eloquent - are you using Eloquent with Slim by chance? I don't know the fix exactly, but if you search for "Call to a member function connection() on null slim" or "Call to a member function connection() on null eloquent" you'll see references. What's odd is that everything is mocked in PHPSpec... so it "shouldn't" (with big quotes) matter what ORM or framework you're using. But... it seems something is going on here related (I think) to Eloquent.

Cheers!

Hi weaverryan

Yes, I am using Eloquent with Slim in that application, thanks a lot for better googling then me :D I will take care of it, have a nice day :)

Maybe i can offer a solution that is a bit more... well "handy". In my case this is a symfony-project.

Go to your Project-Root and find the "bin" folder. Make a new file named phpspec and paste this chunk of code right in:

`#!/usr/bin/env php
< ? php // <-- please note, that i had to fill in whitespaces here, because disqus doesen't like my post otherwise

if (!file_exists(dirname(DIR).'/vendor/phpspec/phpspec/bin/phpspec')) {

echo "Unable to find the `phpspec` script in `vendor/phpspec/phpspec/bin/`.\n";
exit(1);

}

require dirname(DIR).'/vendor/phpspec/phpspec/bin/phpspec';`

Now you should be able to call phpspec simply by typing the command "php bin/phpspec run".
Aaaand it feels more "natural" if you work with "php bin/console" and "php bin/phpunit" too :D

Maybe this makes things more beautiful =)

I like it! Thanks for sharing :)

Ok, I have already resolved the problem. Instead of using

php vendor/bin/phpspec describe -h

I use:

php vendor/phpspec/phpspec/bin/phpspec

Hey MichalWilczynski!

Yes! Nice find! OR, use try this syntax:

./vendor/bin/phpspec

(or you may need to change the slashes \.vendor\bin\phpspec). The phpspec is a "bat" file for Window, so instead of executing it via php, you're supposed to execute it directly. But, it's just kinda tricky. You'll notice that in the script we always use the ./vendor/bin/phpspec version of the command - it's a bit more portable across operating systems.

Cheers!

Great!

Your solution also works! I changed slashes to backslahses and command

.\.vendor\bin\phpspec

works like a harm :D