[rspec-users] fixtures in before(:all)

[Geoffrey Wiseman]

I was planning on using a fixture within a description that didn't modify
the fixture, so I put it in a before(:all) block:

describe "Customer", "xml" do
  fixtures :customers

  before(:all) do
    one = customers(:one)
  end

  # ...

As a result, I got this message:

1)
NoMethodError in 'Customer xml before(:all)'
You have a nil object when you didn't expect it!
You might have expected an instance of Array.
The error occurred while evaluating nil.[]
./spec/models/customer_spec.rb:86:
script/spec:4:

If I convert it to before(:each) or simply before, it works just fine.

describe "Customer", "xml" do
  fixtures :customers

  before do
    one = customers(:one)
  end

  # ...

By design?  bug?  PEBKAC?  Anyone else hit this?

   - Geoffrey
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Geoffrey Wiseman
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