On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Nathan Wilmes <nat...@pivotallabs.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm currently in the process of upgrading an old Rails project to the Rails
> 2.2.2 and the trunk of RSpec, and ran into several issues with rspec-rails.
> I've come up with workarounds for all of them, but I wanted to report them
> to hopefully get them into better shape for other folks.
>
> (1) config.include doesn't work on controller, helper, or view specs if no
> :type parameter is required.
>
> config.include sends an include to RailsExampleGroup. Unfortunately, these
> specs no longer extend RailsExampleGroup.
What are they extending? Are they a custom class? You can resolve this
by making your custom class the default:
Spec::Example::ExampleGroupFactory.default(MyCustomBaseExampleGroupClass)
> Here's my monkey patch:
> module Spec
> module Runner
> class Configuration
> def get_type_from_options(options)
> options[:type] || options[:behaviour_type] || [:controller, :model,
> :view, :helper, nil]
> end
> end
> end
> end
>
> (2) The render override for RSpec controllers only takes one argument. This
> means that any controller using two argument forms will fail.
>
> Our biggest use case for the two-argument controller form is this: render
> :update, :status => 404 do {}
> This case is still allowable and not deprecated in Rails 2.2.2.
I can reinstate the extra arg. Are you looking for it to be handled in
some way? Or just to not blow up?
> (3) with_tag is completely broken, as it tries to use the outer class as the
> subject of 'with_tag', rather than the have_tag matcher that it lives
> inside.
Was it working before and the upgrade broke existing specs? Or is this
a general observation?
> (4) assigns(:xxx) will give really bad errors if your class doesn't happen
> to define == in such a way that it can equate to FalseClass.
Can you provide an example?
>
> Let me know if you'd like examples or extra explanation.
Thanks for the insights thus far.
Cheers,
David
> =N
>
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