[rspec-users] bypass_rescue and its inverse

[Matt Patterson]

On 20 Mar 2009, at 06:46, Matt Patterson wrote:

> Such a boon, in fact, that I immediately shoved bypass_rescue into a  
> global before :each block so that my controller specs would do what  
> I expect by default.
>
> However, that makes my speccing of the rescue_from code a little  
> trickier. Is there an easy way to do the inverse: to switch the  
> default Rails behaviour back on, on command?
>
> I guess the other option is to figure out how to declaratively spec  
> rescue from (which I, and judging by forks of the  
> rspec_on_rails_matchers plugin, several others figured out for  
> before filters)...
>
> Bit unawake yet, may follow up with an answer to my own question  
> when I've imbibed the caffeine.


As predicted, I woke up and implemented a declarative matcher (will  
also work on anything which includes ActiveSupport::Rescuable). Up in  
rough form at http://github.com/fidothe/rspec-on-rails-matchers/tree/master 
. It won't work if you've used a block with rescue_from, but I decided  
I could live without that...

Matt


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