To add to what Jon said, there's this in the README, which unfortunately didn't make it to the documentation on Relish https://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails/#system-specs-feature-specs-request-specswhats-the-difference
On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 4:30 PM Jon Rowe <m...@jonrowe.co.uk> wrote: > > Hi Jack > > I can explain this a bit. RSpec itself has no inbuilt support for browser > testing at all. > > Feature specs are a configuration of Capybara on top of RSpec that is part of > `rspec-rails` a “convention other configuration” from when that was the > recommended way to go with testing full stack setups within Rails. > > System specs are Rails own replacement for this previous “convention”. > > If you are using system specs I would probably replace feature specs with > them. > > Hope that helps! > Jon > ---------------- > m...@jonrowe.co.uk > https://jonrowe.co.uk > > On 3 December 2020 at 00:55, Jack Royal-Gordon wrote: > > I am still wondering why the decision was made not to add this RSpec > functionality to feature specs — I think that there is no other difference > between feature specs and system specs, although looking at the code for > SystemExampleGroup vs. FeatureExampleGroup there seems quite a significant > difference. Perhaps it’s because it’s driving Rails’ > ActionDispatch::Integration instead of being RSpec-only. > > I guess the difference is that your approach is independent of RSpec, whereas > mine uses RSpec. I could not get your approach to fire up headless Chrome > (although I didn’t try your exact code, just code that should have the same > effect (some options are different, but “headless” is still there. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "rspec" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rspec+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rspec/dejalu-217-5bc1a821-9fb1-489c-9633-136b1157c4dc%40jonrowe.co.uk. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "rspec" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rspec+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rspec/CAAk5Ok9pZF%2B-wzdbaQbMuW2fsJ2RUri603as9v%3DSt7iDSctAWA%40mail.gmail.com.
