[rspec-users] shared behav

[David Chelimsky]

On Dec 18, 2007 11:39 AM, Jonathan Linowes <JONATHAN at linowes.com> wrote:
>
> hi, i want to make a behavior shared between models, the examples need to
> create new instances etc. Is there a way to pass the model class to the
> shared behavior?

We're calling these shared example groups now.

The way to affect the state within a shared example group is to use
before(:each) to set an instance variable:

shared_examples_for "models that do stuff" do
  before(:each) do
    @instance = @class.new
  end
  it "should do something" do
   @instance.should do_something
  end
end

describe Foo do
  before(:each) do
    @class = Foo
  end
  it_should_behave_like "models that do stuff"
end

Cheers,
David

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