On 17 Jan 2009, at 19:16, LesFreeman wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to move shared specs out of my spec_helper and into
separate files. I found an article about the process here:http://
blog.kineticweb.com/articles/2008/04/15/automagical-rspec-shared-
example-loading-from-separate-files
Essentially, I created a spec/shared directory, then a file in that
dir called controller_authorization_specs.rb
#controller_authorization_specs.rb
module ControllerAuthorizationSpecs
shared_examples_for "test" do
end
end
Then, in my spec helper, some code to load the shared spec files:
#spec_helper.rb
...
Dir[File.dirname(__FILE__)+'/**/shared/*'].each { |group|
require group
include Object.const_get(group.match(/.*[\/]{1}([\w]*)
[.rb]./).captures.first.camelize)
}
...
Which seems dandy. But, I get these kind of errors:
/Users/lesfreeman/Sites/equvents/spec/shared/
controller_authorization_specs.rb:4: undefined method
`shared_examples_for' for ControllerAuthorizationSpecs:Module
(NoMethodError)
from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
`gem_original_require'
from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
`require'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.2.2/lib/
active_support/dependencies.rb:155:in `require'
from /Users/lesfreeman/Sites/equvents/spec/spec_helper.rb:11
from /Users/lesfreeman/Sites/equvents/spec/spec_helper.rb:10:in
`each'
from /Users/lesfreeman/Sites/equvents/spec/spec_helper.rb:10
from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
`gem_original_require'
from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in
`require'
... 6 levels...
from ./spec/controllers/../spec_helper.rb:7:in `each'
from ./spec/controllers/../spec_helper.rb:7
from spec/controllers/sessions_controller_spec.rb:1:in `require'
from spec/controllers/sessions_controller_spec.rb:1
I'm sure there's an easy solution, but I'm scratching my head. Any
help would be greatly appreciated
I suggest you post a comment on the blog post where you got this idea
from, because it seems incomplete to me - I can't make sense of it.
Some of us who have been using RSpec for a while have found that using
'macros' to generate examples dynamically is often a better technique
for re-using specs. You might want to check out this post:
http://www.benmabey.com/2008/06/08/writing-macros-in-rspec/
Matt Wynne
http://blog.mattwynne.net
http://www.songkick.com
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