Losing output

[jonahwh]

Occasionally, my test suite will stop displaying output with the following error.

        stream closed

/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/reporter/stdout.rb:182:in `write'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/reporter/stdout.rb:182:in `puts'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/reporter/stdout.rb:182:in `output_step'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/reporter/stdout.rb:66:in `on_successful_step'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/reporter.rb:38:in `block (2 levels) in bind'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/hookable.rb:97:in `call'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/hookable.rb:97:in `block in run_hook'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/hookable.rb:97:in `each'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/hookable.rb:97:in `run_hook'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/hookable.rb:28:in `block in hook'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/runner/scenario_runner.rb:78:in `run_step'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/runner/scenario_runner.rb:57:in `block (2 levels) in run'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/runner/scenario_runner.rb:51:in `each'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/runner/scenario_runner.rb:51:in `block in run'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/hookable.rb:81:in `call'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/hookable.rb:81:in `block (3 levels) in run_around_hook'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/reporter.rb:59:in `around_scenario_run'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/reporter.rb:36:in `block (2 levels) in bind'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/hookable.rb:80:in `call'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/hookable.rb:80:in `block (2 levels) in run_around_hook'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/hookable.rb:84:in `call'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/hookable.rb:84:in `run_around_hook'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/hookable.rb:44:in `block in around_hook'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/runner/scenario_runner.rb:48:in `run'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/runner/feature_runner.rb:69:in `block in run_scenarios!'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/runner/feature_runner.rb:67:in `each'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/runner/feature_runner.rb:67:in `each_with_index'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/runner/feature_runner.rb:67:in `run_scenarios!'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/runner/feature_runner.rb:48:in `run'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/runner.rb:78:in `block in run'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/runner.rb:74:in `each'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/runner.rb:74:in `run'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/lib/spinach/cli.rb:27:in `run'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/gems/spinach-0.8.10/bin/spinach:15:in `<top (required)>'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/bin/spinach:23:in `load'
/home/rof/cache/bundler/ruby/2.1.0/bin/spinach:23:in `<main>'

Ruby v 2.1.4p265
Rails v 4.1.6

[jonahwh]

This may be an issue in rails (rails/rails#13139). The monkeypatch suggested, https://gist.github.com/tommeier/9845210, didn't work for me. My simpelest monkeypatch solution was to just make a custom reporter that uses $stderr instead of $stdout