major restructuring, specs probably all break

right now

spec/spec_helper.rb

@@ -16,3 +16,34 @@ require 'amqp/failover'
 
 require 'rspec'
 require 'rspec/autorun'
+
+
+#
+# Helper methods
+#
+
+def wait_while(timeout = 10, retry_interval = 0.1, &block)
+  start = Time.now
+  while block.call
+    break if (Time.now - start).to_i >= timeout
+    sleep(retry_interval)
+  end
+end
+
+# stolen from Pid::running? from daemons gem
+def pid_running?(pid)
+  return false unless pid
+  
+  # Check if process is in existence
+  # The simplest way to do this is to send signal '0'
+  # (which is a single system call) that doesn't actually
+  # send a signal
+  begin
+    Process.kill(0, pid)
+    return true
+  rescue Errno::ESRCH
+    return false
+  rescue ::Exception   # for example on EPERM (process exists but does not belong to us)
+    return true
+  end
+end