David,
Thanks for your reply; however I probably wasn't very clear in my
explanation. What I am really trying to do is to create a builder for
example group objects, without automatically adding the example groups to
the rspec runner when the builder code is invoked.
As an example, when I call the following code:
describe "a group" do
examples = Class.new(Spec::Example::ExampleGroup).describe("example")
examples.it "should not be added to the outer group" do
true.should be_false
end
end
I get:
~~~
1)
'example should not be added to the outer group' FAILED
expected false, got true
Finished in 0.027012 seconds
1 example, 1 failure
~~~
This is probably expected, but what I really want is that the "examples"
example group is NOT picked up by rspec. I suppose that I need to stay away
from the "it" and "describe" methods... right?
Regards,
Jake
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 6:50 PM, David Chelimsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Jake Benilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to code an application that is based on Rspec; I am
> > programmatically building examples, and launching the runner with a
> custom
> > formatter. Here are the code snippets from my app:
> >
> > Launching the runner:
> >
> > example_groups =
> > test_expectation.example_groups_for(system_state)
> >
> > @output = StringIO.new
> > options = Spec::Runner::OptionParser.parse(["--format",
> > "RAutotest::Runner::Formatter"], @output, @output)
> > example_groups.each {|example_group|
> > options.add_example_group(example_group) }
> >
> > Spec::Runner::CommandLine.run(options)
> >
> > Building the example groups:
> >
> > examples =
> > Class.new(Spec::Example::ExampleGroup).describe("Statistics")
> > @expectations.map do |expectation|
> > examples.it examples.description do
> > actual_stats_counters.should expectation
> > end
> > end
> > examples
> >
> > This is working fine, except for one problem. When I am writing examples
> for
> > my app (also using rspec), the examples that are generated within my
> > application (the inner examples, so to say) are being added to the
> > application's examples (the outer examples).
> > This means that if inner expected failures are causing my outer examples
> to
> > fail.
> >
> > How is it possible for me to verify expected failures without causing my
> > examples to fail?
>
> If I understand your question correctly, you can do this:
>
> lambda {
> # stuff that should fail
> }.should raise_error(Spec::Expectations::ExpectationNotMetError)
>
> See
> http://rspec.rubyforge.org/rspec/1.1.8/classes/Spec/Matchers.html#M000434
> for more info.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Jake
> >
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