On 9/8/07, Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 7, 2007, at 3:31 PM, Geoffrey Wiseman 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? > > > > Looks like a bug to me, although I don't know why you would want to > load a fixture only once, and not before every test. Generally, I > don't find much use for a before(:all) block (they are discouraged in > Test::Unit as well, for their unreliable use with more than one test). >
Like I said - it's by design. It's been discussed in previous mail threads. Aslak > Scott > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
