On Mar 28, 2011, at 9:29 PM, Mike Tsao wrote: > Any ideas? All I'd like to do is have two specs in different files use > the same shared example group. I saw a similar thread about autotest, > but I am not using that. [Sorry for the double post on Google Groups; > didn't realize at the time it was a read-only group.] > > $ ruby -v > ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [universal-darwin10.0] > $ rails -v > Rails 3.0.5 > $ rails new shared > $ cd shared/ > $ echo "gem 'rspec-rails', '~> 2.5'" >> Gemfile > $ bundle --without production > $ rails generate rspec:install > $ rails generate scaffold foo > $ rake db:migrate > $ mkdir spec/support > $ nano spec/support/stuff_spec.rb
Don't name this file ^^ ending with _spec.rb - that is the default pattern that RSpec looks for specs in, so it's getting loaded as a spec. Name it something like shared_examples_for_stuff.rb. HTH, David > > -- spec/support/stuff_spec.rb > shared_examples_for "bar" do > end > > $ rake spec > (in /tmp/shared) > /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby -S > bundle exec rspec ./spec/controllers/foos_controller_spec.rb > ./spec/helpers/foos_helper_spec.rb ./spec/models/foo_spec.rb > ./spec/requests/foos_spec.rb ./spec/routing/foos_routing_spec.rb > ./spec/support/stuff_spec.rb ./spec/views/foos/edit.html.erb_spec.rb > ./spec/views/foos/index.html.erb_spec.rb > ./spec/views/foos/new.html.erb_spec.rb > ./spec/views/foos/show.html.erb_spec.rb > /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.5.1/lib/rspec/core/shared_example_group.rb:45:in > `ensure_shared_example_group_name_not_taken': Shared example group > 'bar' already exists (ArgumentError) > from > /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.5.1/lib/rspec/core/shared_example_group.rb:6:in > `shared_examples_for' > from /private/tmp/shared/spec/support/stuff_spec.rb:1 > from > /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.0.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:235:in > `load' > from > /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.0.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:235:in > `load' > from > /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.0.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:227:in > `load_dependency' > from > /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.0.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:235:in > `load' > from > /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.5.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:386:in > `load_spec_files' > from > /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.5.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:386:in > `map' > from > /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.5.1/lib/rspec/core/configuration.rb:386:in > `load_spec_files' > from > /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.5.1/lib/rspec/core/command_line.rb:18:in > `run' > from > /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.5.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:55:in > `run_in_process' > from > /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.5.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:46:in > `run' > from > /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rspec-core-2.5.1/lib/rspec/core/runner.rb:10:in > `autorun' > from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/bin/rspec:19 > rake aborted! _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
