On 9/7/07, Geoffrey Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was planning on using a fixture within a description that didn't modify > the fixture, so I put it in a before(:all) block: > describe "Customer", "xml" do > fixtures :customers > > before(:all) do > one = customers(:one) > end > > # ... > As a result, I got this message: > > 1) > NoMethodError in 'Customer xml before(:all)' > You have a nil object when you didn't expect it! > You might have expected an instance of Array. > The error occurred while evaluating nil.[] > ./spec/models/customer_spec.rb:86: > script/spec:4: > If I convert it to before(:each) or simply before, it works just fine. > describe "Customer", "xml" do > fixtures :customers > > before do > one = customers(:one) > end > > # ... > By design? bug? PEBKAC? Anyone else hit this? >
By design. Fixtures don't work with before(:all). There has been several discussions about this on the list previously. Aslak > - Geoffrey > -- > Geoffrey Wiseman > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
