From 1b5736f1012f91676b87f00f4189764be591fe3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Dowad <alexinbeijing@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 20:00:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Recurse upward looking for .simplecov

The SimpleCov documentation states: "To avoid [duplicated configuration], you
can place a file called .simplecov in your project root." However, SimpleCov did
not actually look in the "project root" for this file, unless specially configured
to know where the project root is. Rather, it would simply look in the working
directory. Working directory != project root. (Unfortunately.)

Therefore, when looking for .simplecov, recurse upwards from the working directory
until it is found (or the root directory is reached). This is comparable to the
way that git recurses upwards looking for a .git directory, meaning that you can
use git anywhere in your project root or below.

Since there is no guarantee that you have permissions to read .simplecov, catch
exceptions and display a warning message if one occurs.
---
 lib/simplecov/defaults.rb | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/simplecov/defaults.rb b/lib/simplecov/defaults.rb
index 5dcf86b3..09aad1c1 100644
--- a/lib/simplecov/defaults.rb
+++ b/lib/simplecov/defaults.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # Load default formatter gem
 require "simplecov-html"
+require "pathname"
 
 SimpleCov.profiles.define "root_filter" do
   # Exclude all files outside of simplecov root
@@ -97,5 +98,20 @@
 end
 
 # Autoload config from .simplecov if present
-config_path = File.join(SimpleCov.root, ".simplecov")
-load config_path if File.exist?(config_path)
+# Recurse upwards until we find .simplecov or reach the root directory
+
+config_path = Pathname.new(SimpleCov.root)
+loop do
+  filename = config_path.join(".simplecov")
+  if filename.exist?
+    begin
+      load filename
+    rescue LoadError, StandardError
+      $stderr.puts "Warning: Error occurred while trying to load #{filename}. " \
+        "Error message: #{$!.message}"
+    end
+    break
+  end
+  config_path, = config_path.split
+  break if config_path.root?
+end