bundle exec rake test:models throws Errno::EACCES: Permission denied

Question

I am doing the draft version of the railstutorial, when I try to run bundle exec rake test:models I get this error message:

rake aborted!
Errno:         


        

Answer 1

Yes, the issue is with Windows. when you read the code for fileutils.rb found in railsinstaller directory. It wants to unlink and want to give permission 700(which is found in unix/linux) but not in windows. so will not work.

Here is the snippet from the fileutil.rb file.

def remove_file
  platform_support {
    File.unlink path
  }
end

def platform_support
  return yield unless fu_windows?
  first_time_p = true
  begin
    yield
  rescue Errno::ENOENT
    raise
  rescue => err
    if first_time_p
      first_time_p = false
      begin
        File.chmod 0700, path()   # Windows does not have symlink
        retry
      rescue SystemCallError
      end
    end
    raise err
  end
end