[rspec-users] Problem with before(:all)

[Rich Price]

I have a module with two methods for marshaling objects.
The following rspec code is used to test this module:
-----  Start Code  -----
require '../code/fmutil.rb'
require '../code/fmgrid.rb'
require '../code/serial.rb'

# start test of Serial Module
describe Serial do
  describe "Given a grid with the block test pattern" do
    before(:all) do
      cfg01 = Fmconfig.new
      grid01 = Grid.makeempty(cfg01,500,20)
      cfg01.list[:cellhight].times do |y|
        cfg01.list[:cellwidth].times do |x|
          grid01[x,y].elevation = x+10*(y+1)
        end
      end
    end
    describe "restored serialized grid object" do
      it "matches origional grid object." do
        grid02 = Grid.allocate
        Serial.write(grid01,"testtemp01")
        grid02 = Serial.read(grid02,"testtemp01")
        grid01[9,9].elevation.should == grid02[9,9].elevation
      end
    end
  end
end
-----  End Code  -----

But when I run it it seems that the Grid object created in the
before(:all) hook is not available to the example [see below].
Why is this?

-----  Start Run  -----
rich@richlaptop2:~/Documents/fakemap/rspec$ rspec serialgrid.rb

Serial
  Given a grid with the block test pattern
    restored serialized grid object
      matches origional grid object. (FAILED - 1)

Failures:

  1) Serial Given a grid with the block test pattern restored 
serialized grid object matches origional grid object.
     Failure/Error: Serial.write(grid01,"testtemp01")
     NameError:
       undefined local variable or method `grid01' for 
#<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1::Nested_1::Nested_1:0xb7677a0c>
     # ./serialgrid.rb:20

Finished in 0.00698 seconds
1 example, 1 failure
rich@richlaptop2:~/Documents/fakemap/rspec$
-----  End Run  -----


I am running rspec 2.4.0 and ruby 1.8.7


--
Rich Price
r...@gandalf.ws

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