Hi Zach,
That worked a treat. Thanks!
Regards,
Jake
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 3:24 AM, Zach Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Jake Benilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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
>
> When you create a subclass of Spec:Example::ExampleGroup, it
> automatically gets registered. You want to make sure you unregister it
> so rspec's Runner doesn't try to run it. Try this:
>
> describe "a group" do
> example_group = Class.new(Spec::Example::ExampleGroup)
> example_group.unregister
> examples = example_group.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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