observations about autotest, rspec, and standalone ruby

I am able to get the Ruby Test Results window to display the results
when I run AutoTest in the IDE if I set the platform to MRI ruby to work
in the IDE.

I am not able to get the Ruby Test Results window to display the results
when I run AutoTest in the IDE if I set the platform to standalone JRuby
1.1.4 or bundled JRuby 1.1.4. However they don't work at the command
line either, as shown below, which probably explains why it doesn't work
in the IDE. Am not sure whether to file a bug and whether to file it
against JRuby or NetBeans.

Furthermore, I do not understand why I get different results with the
bundled JRuby and the standalone JRuby, which I downloaded and installed
separately. I have verified that I have the same Rspec and Zentest versions.

Testing from the command line, I have learned the following.

All platforms:
Rspec 1.1.4
Zentest 3.10

MRI Ruby: works
============
 >ruby -S autotest
loading autotest/rspec
c:\ruby\bin\ruby -S c:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rspec-1.1.4\bin\spec
-O spec/
spec.opts  spec/item_spec.rb spec/helper.rb

Item
- should return false for wrong price (FAILED - 1)

1)
'Item should should return right price' FAILED
expected: 3,
     got: 2 (using ==)
./spec/item_spec.rb:13:

Finished in 0.062 seconds

1 example, 1 failure

Bundled JRuby: Runs but no test output
===========================

 >jruby -S autotest
loading autotest/rspec
C:\Program Files\NetBeans Dev
200810091401\ruby2\jruby-1.1.4\bin\jruby.bat -S C:
\Program Files\NetBeans Dev
200810091401\ruby2\jruby-1.1.4\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gem
s\rspec-1.1.4\bin\spec -O spec/spec.opts  spec/item_spec.rb spec/helper.rb


Separate installation of JRuby: Runs the tests once then emits an error
==============================================

 >jruby -S autotest
loading autotest/rspec
C:\jruby\jruby-1.1.4\bin\jruby.bat -S
C:\jruby\jruby-1.1.4\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gem
s\rspec-1.1.4\bin\spec -O spec/spec.opts  spec/item_spec.rb spec/helper.rb

Item
- should return right price (FAILED - 1)

1)
'Item should return right price' FAILED
expected: 3,
     got: 2 (using ==)
C:/Documents and Settings/HP_Administrator/My
Documents/NetBeansProjects/RubyApp
lication5/./spec/item_spec.rb:13
C:\jruby\jruby-1.1.4\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rspec-1.1.4\bin\spec:4

Finished in 0.096873 seconds

1 example, 1 failure
C:/jruby/jruby-1.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.1.4/lib/autotest/rspec.rb:31
:in `consolidate_failures': target of repeat operator is invalid:
/\n(\.\/)?(.*\
.rb):[\d]+:\Z?/ (RegexpError)
        from
C:/jruby/jruby-1.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.1.4/lib/autotes
t/rspec.rb:30:in `each'
        from
C:/jruby/jruby-1.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.1.4/lib/autotes
t/rspec.rb:30:in `consolidate_failures'
        from
C:/jruby/jruby-1.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest-3.10.0/lib/auto
test.rb:401:in `handle_results'
        from
C:/jruby/jruby-1.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest-3.10.0/lib/auto
test.rb:274:in `run_tests'
        from
C:/jruby/jruby-1.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest-3.10.0/lib/auto
test.rb:228:in `get_to_green'
        from
C:/jruby/jruby-1.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest-3.10.0/lib/auto
test.rb:208:in `run'
        from
C:/jruby/jruby-1.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest-3.10.0/lib/auto
test.rb:206:in `loop'
        from
C:/jruby/jruby-1.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest-3.10.0/lib/auto
test.rb:206:in `run'
        from
C:/jruby/jruby-1.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest-3.10.0/lib/auto
test.rb:136:in `run'
        from
C:/jruby/jruby-1.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest-3.10.0/bin/auto
test:55
        from
C:/jruby/jruby-1.1.4/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ZenTest-3.10.0/bin/auto
test:19:in `load'
        from C:/jruby/jruby-1.1.4/bin/autotest:19

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