[rspec-users] Specing exit codes

[Mikel Lindsaar]

Hey Scott,

Thanks for the speedy answer.... dependency injection is new to me, so
I am getting my head around it all.

I put your solution in and now I am getting:

1)
SystemExit in 'Init handling exit codes before(:all)'
exit
./init.rb:8:in `exit'
./init.rb:8:in `initialize'

2)
SystemExit in 'Init handling exit codes after(:all)'
exit
./init.rb:8:in `exit'
./init.rb:8:in `initialize'

Finished in 0.020305 seconds

26 examples, 2 failures


Which seems on the right path... how do I catch SystemExit?

I don't have a before :all or after :all defined explicitly...

Regards

Mikel


On 10/7/07, Scott Taylor <mailing_lists at railsnewbie.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 6, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Mikel Lindsaar wrote:
>
> > I am writing a small ruby script that will be accepting input from
> > postfix's pipe command (ie, not running via the shell, directly
> > executing).
> >
> > One of the things I need to do it spec the exit codes to make sure I
> > am returing the correct exit codes for each condition as Postfix will
> > then return SMTP errors as appropriate.
> >
> > I have two files that concern this bit of the program, init.rb and
> > init_spec.rb.
> >
> > init.rb right now looks like this:
> > ------------------------
> > class Init
> >   exit 1
> > end
> > ------------------------
> >
> > init_spec.rb looks like this:
> > ------------------------
> > require 'spec'
> > require 'systemu'
> > require 'init'
> >
> > describe Init do
> >   it "should exit on status code 1 without parameters"
> >     command = "ruby mail_dump/init.rb" # not portable
> >     status, stdout, stderr = systemu command
> >     status.should == # what do I put here?
> >   end
> > end
> > ------------------------
> >
> > I have tried a number of things, from trying to stub exit to aliasing
> > kernel.exit to something else and replacing it... all without joy.
> >
> > The spec runs and hits the "exit 1" in init.rb and does what it is
> > mean to do... exit.  But that also exits RSpec and so the test is
> > never run!
> >
> > The only thing I found DID work is if I alias Kernel.exit inside the
> > init.rb file to "real_exit" and then redefine Kernel exit like so:
> >
> > class Object
> >   module Kernel
> >     alias real_exit exit
> >     def exit(arg)
> >       return true if arg == 1
> >     end
> >   end
> > end
> >
> > and then test exit by mocking it and making sure it returns true...
> > but a spec that has to modify the test code isn't going to scale too
> > well... and this doesn't seem right.
> >
> > Has anyone else had this problem?  How did you solve it?
>
> I had a similar problem a while back.  Aslak tipped me off to
> dependency injection.  Something like this:
>
> describe Init do
>    before :each do
>      @kernel = mock(Kernel)
>      @kernel.stub!(:exit).and_return 1
>    end
>
>    it "should exit on status code 1 without parameters"
>      init = Init.new(@kernel)
>      init.start
>      init.status.should == 1
>    end
> end
>
> module Init
>    def start(kernel=Kernel)
>      kernel.start
>    end
> end
>
>
> Scott
>
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