Thanks for the response. That's an interesting approach. I will try that and see how far I can get with it.
If my ruby chops were a little better, I suspect I could find a more elegant solution. Any other ideas out there? On 2/3/10, Matt Wynne <m...@mattwynne.net> wrote: > One way would be to use an environment variable: > > $ CUSTOMER=foo spec spec > > Then read out the customer name in your specs: > > login = ENV['CUSTOMER'] > > Otherwise, I would guess you might be able to look at ARGV from > within, say, spec_helper.rb but I've never tried it. > > On 3 Feb 2010, at 03:51, Levi Conley wrote: > >> Newbie here. I'm hoping someone can give me an outline of how to >> re-use rspec scripts by passing them parameters. >> >> The situation I have is testing a web application (using watir) for >> about 30 different customers. Some of the customers have unique >> features in their particular application instance, but much of the >> codebase is shared (about 90%). So what I need to be able to do is >> write rspec tests covering that shared codebase. But I need to in >> some way pass in the customer name so that watir can log into the >> right application instance. >> >> Any help with this is greatly appreciated. I still have much to learn >> about Rspec, but so far this seemingly simple task has me stumped. >> >> Thanks >> _______________________________________________ >> rspec-users mailing list >> rspec-users@rubyforge.org >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > > cheers, > Matt > > http://mattwynne.net > +447974 430184 > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > -- My mother used to say to me, "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me. _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
