Thanks for the reply David - much appreciated. At least now I know that it can't be done, rather than pursuing it further for now. I'll just have to live without that functionality for now and add it later on if a fix is made available.
Regards, John On Feb 4, 2:03 pm, David Chelimsky <dchelim...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:07 AM, John Kolokotronis <johnj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > I'm new to Rspec but loving it so far and looking to use it as a > > replacement for a Test::Unit framework I have which drives a web app > > via Watir. So far, things have worked very well with Rspec but I can't > > get my head around how before/after(:all) blocks would work in nested > > groups, or even if what I am doing is possible. > > > What I want to do is something like this: > > > describe "This is a set of tests: " do > > before(:all) do > > puts "this should only appear once" > > end > > > describe "Test 1" do > > puts "test 1" > > end > > > describe "Test 2" do > > puts "test 2" > > end > > end > > > Expecting the before(:all) block to run only once and see something > > like: > > > - this should only appear once > > - test 1 > > - test 2 > > > but what I am getting is: > > > - this should only appear once > > - test 1 > > - this should only appear once > > - test 2 > > > So my question is, how can you add before/after(:all) blocks that run > > once and only once for for all examples, if all the examples are > > nested in one main describe block? Is that something that's even > > possible? I'd appreciate any pointers anyone may have. Thanks! > > Right now it's not possible. There's an open ticket on this: > > http://rspec.lighthouseapp.com/projects/5645/tickets/632 > > > > > Regards, > > > John > > _______________________________________________ > > rspec-users mailing list > > rspec-us...@rubyforge.org > >http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-us...@rubyforge.orghttp://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
