On 11/21/07, Chad Humphries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the recent trunk changesets modified the default behaviour to > fail fast if duplicate examples are detected within a single behaviour/ > example group. This is basically letting you know you have to "it" > blocks in the behaviour with the same description. >
This is correct. It's not a bug - it's by design and documented in CHANGES. The reason I put it in has an interesting explanation. Over the past few days our coverage dropped from 100% to 99.9% and we couldn't understand why. RCov reported that some code wasn't being covered, but I *knew* there were examples covering it. Something was fishy. Then I remembered that Brian a few days ago did a change to the internals - every it block now creates a method with the same name as the description, and later calls that method to run the example. Nothing wrong with that, but it had some sideeffects we didn't think about: If there were duplicates, the last one would simply overwrite (monkey patch!) the previous one with the same name. And as a result never get run. Since I'm a fail fast kind of guy I made RSpec do that. And then I had to go and fix a dozen or so duplicates in our own code. Damn CMD-C/CMD-V keys. I realise the error message you're getting now isn't exactly easy to grok, but as always - we're glad to take patches to make it speak nicer to you. Cheers, Aslak > Note: You may have this issue rise up if you have one in a shared > behaviour and accidental duplication in the file (that was my case > when I updated this morning). > > - Chad > > On Nov 21, 2007, at 1:12 PM, Scott Taylor wrote: > > > I svn up'ed this morning, to get the following message with rake spec: > > > > /Users/smt/src/web/urbis/trunk/vendor/plugins/rspec/lib/spec/example/ > > example_group_methods.rb:96:in `it': Duplicate example: 'should > > contain the total number of messages' (RuntimeError) > > > > Anyone have any ideas why this might be going on? My specs were all > > passing last night. > > > > Let me know if I should put this in the tracker. > > > > Scott > > _______________________________________________ > > rspec-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
