[rspec-users] Using "return" in rspec test

[Gary Lin]

Hi,

I am still new to rspec and I wonder if anyone can give me some insight 
about the problem I have encountered.  I notice whenever I use "return" 
in my test, it will skip all the examples and exit right out of my test 
run.  Here is a small example that demonstrate the problem:

describe "This tests uses return in my code" do
  it "should print Hello" do
      puts "Hello"    
      # skip some test scenario if product is in demo mode
      if @product.demoMode?
          return;
     else
       # rest of the test goes here.
     end
  end
 
  it "should print hi" do
      puts "hi"
  end
end

With the above spec, the second "it should print hi" test will never get 
executed. 
I found it would be very useful to use "return" to skip some of the test 
code if a particular scenario occurs.  So I wonder if I cannot use 
"return" to achieve this, is there any way I can workaround it?

Thanks,

--Gary