On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Mark Berry wrote:
> > 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?
Yes. Is the repo public?
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