You can also call a spec by name, e.g.
rspec spec -e "access some page"
That should find the right spec no matter how it was defined.
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On Nov 15, 2012, at 7:23 AM, George Ogata <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was hoping to reduce some repetitive verbosity in our specs,
> and came across an attractive pattern.
>
> First, in a helper file:
>
> def when_subscribed(&block)
> context "when user gets subscribed experience" do
> before { current_user.stub(subscribed?: true) }
> class_eval(&block)
> end
> end
>
> def when_unsubscribed(&block)
> context "when user gets subscribed experience" do
> before { current_user.stub(subscribed?: false) }
> class_eval(&block)
> end
> end
>
> Then in our specs, stuff like:
>
> when_subscribed do
> it "allows the user to access some page" do
> ...
> end
>
> ...
> end
>
> This works of course, except it no longer lets us run these specs
> via a line number on the command line, because RSpec considers
> the spec defined in our helper file.
>
> In other words, the example group metadata says the file_path and
> line_number correspond to the "context" lines in the
> when_[un]subscribed definition.
>
> The only solution I could find was a horrible brittle hack like:
>
> def shadow_context(name, options={}, &block)
> first_caller_from_outside_rspec = caller.find { |line| line !~
> %r'/lib/rspec/core|/spec/support/' }
> first_caller_from_outside_rspec =~ /(.+?):(\d+)(|:\d+)/
> file_path, line_number = $1, $2.to_i
> context name do
> metadata[:example_group][:file_path] = file_path
> metadata[:example_group][:line_number] = line_number
> class_eval(&block)
> end
> end
>
> And now change "context" to "shadow_context" in the helpers.
>
> Is there a better way to do this?
> If not, would a better way to handle this be welcome in RSpec?
>
> Thanks!
> George
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