Thanks, Jon and Phil. That clarifies things greatly. System Specs it is! > On Dec 3, 2020, at 5:47 AM, Phil Pirozhkov <pirjs...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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.
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