On Mar 29, 2010, at 10:36 PM, Jimmy Soho wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We have many specs like the pattern given below.
>
> The problem is that it's slow, because each inner context block will execute
> the before(:all) in the outer describe block.
>
> Is there a way to setup an inner context block that does not execute the
> before(:all) and after(:all), but does execute the before(:each) and
> after(:each) ?
Not in rspec-1, but that's how rspec-2 works by default.
I don't want to change this in rspec-1 because I don't plan to release any more
major 1.x releases, and this would risk being a compatibility-breaking change.
HTH,
David
> Based on some playing around (removing inner context blocks) we think this
> would speed up our tests by a factor of 10.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Jimmy
>
> -----
>
> describe Project do
> before(:all) do
> # statements that set up an object graph, relatively slow
> end
>
> after(:all) do
> # tear down object graph
> end
>
> it { should ... }
> it { should ... }
> it { should ... }
> it { should ... }
>
> context "target calculations" do
> before(:each) do
> # non-expensive statements, just setting up for example the subject,
> Time.zone, locale, etc.
> end
>
> it { should ... }
> it { should ... }
> it { should ... }
> end
>
> context "duration calculations" do
> before(:each) do
> # non-expensive statements
> end
>
> it { should ... }
> it { should ... }
> it { should ... }
> end
>
> context ...
> context ...
> [ etc. ]
>
> end
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