[rspec-users] Conditionally turning some specs on and off depending on runtime platform

[Wincent Colaiuta]

El 26/9/2008, a las 13:30, Ashley Moran  
<ashley.moran at patchspace.co.uk> escribió:

> On Sep 25, 2008, at 9:50 pm, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
>
>> The following trick, calling "pending" from inside the before block,
>> effectively does what I want. But I'm wondering if I can count on
>> this behaviour going forward? What do you think?
>>
>> describe 'Something' do
>>   before do
>>     if required_tools_not_installed
>>       pending 'not running on this platform'
>>     end
>>   end
>>
>>   it 'should do something' do
>>     1.should == 1
>>   end
>> end
>
> Hi Wincent
>
> How about wrapping it this way instead...
>
>  describe 'Something' do
>    if required_tools_installed
>      it 'should do something' do
>        1.should == 1
>      end
>    end
>  end
>
> That will make them invisible (for better or worse).

Yeah, that's another way of doing it.

> How come you need this?  Is what you really need to spec that the tool
> itself degrades gracefully? eg
>
>  describe 'Something' do
>    if required_tools_installed
>      it 'should do something' do
>        1.should == 1
>      end
>    else
>      it 'should inform the user the tool is missing'
>    end
>  end

No, it's actually a case of having a bunch of Java junk installed on  
my local system which I can use to do extended testing of things like  
feed validity on this machine, while on the server I don't have (and  
can't install) the Java stuff so would like to skip those specs.

Cheers,
Wincent