>On Wed April 18, 2012 at 5:35 AM, David Chelimsky wrote:
>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
[Sorry if this starts a new thread. I was attempting to monitor and
reply to the group through Google Groups, but apparently that mirror
stopped working on April 10, so I'm having to reconstruct this reply.]
Thanks for the reply.
Although the output says "5 examples, 5 failures," there is only one
example, hence my confusion about it failing five times. Also, the
"documentation" output lists each describe block (except the first)
two to four times.
When I fix the error, I get one line per describe, plus one example
completed, as expected:
[myproject (tests)]$ rspec spec/requests/test2* --format documentation
public pages
details page
when visiting a second page before example
should has link "Sign in"
Finished in 1.44 seconds
1 example, 0 failures
I have since discovered that the problem only occurs when using
"--format documentation". Without that, with the error back in place,
RSpec only gives me one error, not five:
[myproject (tests)]$ rspec spec/requests/test2*
F
Failures:
1) public pages details page 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_1:0xa1f2ef8>
# ./spec/requests/test2_pages_spec.rb:9:in `block (4 levels) in
<top (required)>'
Finished in 1.07 seconds
1 example, 1 failure
Failed examples:
rspec ./spec/requests/test2_pages_spec.rb:10 # public pages details
page when visiting a second page before example
Does that clarify the issue?
Mark Berry
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