Small patch to make akephalos work on windows

[noniq]

The change in the call to IO.popen in remote_client.rb is taken from https://github.com/bernerdschaefer/akephalos/issues#issue/18/comment/485887 .

Additionally I had to replace ":" with File::PATH_SEPARATOR in two places in bin/akephalos.

With these changes, running a cucumber feature using akephalos works (tested on Windows 7). It leaves the command prompt in kind of a weird state, however. Not sure yet what's causing this – for now I just close and reopen the command prompt window, if necessary.

[nusco]

You're great, noniq. I hope this one gets pulled soon.

[nusco]

I tried the patch on a Windows XP machine. It runs (which is what I needed, of course). It still seems to have trouble closing the remote process. Apparently, the cause is line 65 in remote_client.rb:

  at_exit { Process.kill(:INT, remote_client.pid) }

Maybe this could be replaced with a check for the OS, and possibly use the kill() method from win32-process (see: https://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/85/707/README.html).

Already a very worthy patch even without fixing this.

[petemounce]

Is there anything I can do to help get this integrated? I run cucumber on windows regularly using Capybara/SeleniumWD, and would like to switch to something headless.

[searls]

+1 - this is currently blocking me too

[noniq]

@nusco: I played around with this today: Based on your suggestion it's possible to kill the remote (ruby) process, see https://gist.github.com/1044475
However, the java process still stays around … And this one is the real memory hog. Do you have ideas how this could be fixed?

[nusco]

Unfortunately I don't. :( Like many people here, I'm not really a Windows person - I just happen to have a lot of customers using Windows, so I had to goof around on Google looking for a solution. I think it boils down to get the id of the Java process on launch, right?

[whitelancer]

Another thing I've noticed in trying to get this to run on Cygwin/Win7 is that the "rescue Errno::ECONNREFUSED" big in the self.responsive? function is not catching Win7's new/different error:
Errno::EPERM: Operation not permitted - connect(2)

[kieranmaine]

taskkill can be used to kill the ruby process and the child java process that it creates.

system("taskkill /PID #{remote_client.pid} /F /T")

fairly new to ruby so no idea if this is the best solution.

[noniq]

We recently replaced our development machines with Macs, so this is no longer a issue for us – I leave the pull request open however, as it is at least a small improvent to the status quo :-)