On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Mark Berry wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Rails 3.1.3, rspec-rails 2.9.0, and Ruby 1.9.3p0.
>
> I've been getting recursive errors, where one error is reported
> multiple times. It's quite spectacular in a long suite, with the
> errors overflowing the console buffer. I've whittled down a simple
> example:
>
> require 'spec_helper'
> describe "public pages" do
> subject { page }
> describe "details page" do
> before do
> visit root_path
> end
> describe "when visiting a second page before example" do
> before { visit sign_in_path }
> it { should have_link("Sign in") }
> end
> end
> end
>
> The error here is that "sign_in_path" should really be "signin_path".
> But I get that error five times, and when I run with --format
> documentation, it looks like RSpec is generating it recursively before
> it "blows up" with a stack trace (see output below).
>
> Obviously this test doesn't really need two before blocks, but
> sometimes I do want to visit two pages before a test.
>
> Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?
>
> Mark Berry
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Test output:
>
> [myproject (tests)]$ rspec spec/requests/test2* --format documentation
> No DRb server is running. Running in local process instead ...
>
> public pages
> details page
> when no user is signed in
> when visiting a second page before example
> when visiting a second page before example
> when no user is signed in
> when visiting a second page before example
> details page
> when no user is signed in
> when visiting a second page before example
>
> Failures:
>
> 1) public pages details page when no user is signed in when visiting
> a second page before example
> Failure/Error: before { visit sign_in_path }
> NameError:
> undefined local variable or method `sign_in_path' for
> #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1::Nested_1::Nested_1::Nested_1:0xb6f3460>
> # ./spec/requests/test2_pages_spec.rb:16:in `block (5 levels) in
> <top (required)>'
>
> 2) public pages details page when no user is signed in when visiting
> a second page before example
> Failure/Error: before { visit sign_in_path }
> NameError:
> undefined local variable or method `sign_in_path' for
> #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1::Nested_1::Nested_1::Nested_1:0xb6f3460>
> # ./spec/requests/test2_pages_spec.rb:16:in `block (5 levels) in
> <top (required)>'
>
> 3) public pages details page when no user is signed in when visiting
> a second page before example
> Failure/Error: before { visit sign_in_path }
> NameError:
> undefined local variable or method `sign_in_path' for
> #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1::Nested_1::Nested_1::Nested_1:0xb6f3460>
> # ./spec/requests/test2_pages_spec.rb:16:in `block (5 levels) in
> <top (required)>'
>
> 4) public pages details page when no user is signed in when visiting
> a second page before example
> Failure/Error: before { visit sign_in_path }
> NameError:
> undefined local variable or method `sign_in_path' for
> #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1::Nested_1::Nested_1::Nested_1:0xb6f3460>
> # ./spec/requests/test2_pages_spec.rb:16:in `block (5 levels) in
> <top (required)>'
>
> 5) public pages details page when no user is signed in when visiting
> a second page before example
> Failure/Error: before { visit sign_in_path }
> NameError:
> undefined local variable or method `sign_in_path' for
> #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1::Nested_1::Nested_1::Nested_1:0xb6f3460>
> # ./spec/requests/test2_pages_spec.rb:16:in `block (5 levels) in
> <top (required)>'
>
>
>
This is what I would expect. There is nothing "recursive" about this. There is
a failure in a before block that runs before every example. It's the same as if
you had the same broken code directly in each example.
HTH,
David
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