Mastermind: spec failing during gets call

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#1

I have no idea what could be causing this. Any tips?

  1) Game input/output #get_guess should parse input and return Code object
     Failure/Error: expect(game.get_guess).to be_instance_of(Code)
     Errno::EISDIR:
       Is a directory @ io_fillbuf - fd:7 spec
     # ./lib/mastermind.rb:84:in `gets'
     # ./lib/mastermind.rb:84:in `gets'
     # ./lib/mastermind.rb:84:in `get_guess'
     # ./spec/mastermind_spec.rb:145:in `block (4 levels) in <top (required)>'
#2

Can you post your code?

#3

That an interesting error to be getting, it’s actually an error initially coming from your OS and not ruby itself. Somewhere in your get_guess method (or maybe your Code class?) you are trying to open a directory for writing, which you can not do, hence the error. Do you have File.open('something/') somewhere in your code? if so, I’m not sure why you would need that for your mastermind program.

#4

https://ghostbin.com/paste/gz4q6

I don’t have any file I/O in my code.

#5

So I just ran your code on my computer it passed all the specs… I’m not sure how to help if I can’t replicate the error and then play around with it.

#6

Same as corey here, your code passes all the specs for me.

Perhaps it’s an error with your Rspec gem?

You can try bundle install again/verify that you are using the current version in your Gemfile.
the current version is 3.6.0, per rspec

#7

@aarzee try calling $stdin.gets explicitly

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#8

I had the exact same error, $stdin.gets in the get_guess method let me pass all the specs finally. Thanks!

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