[rspec-users] at_exit in spec file?

[aslak hellesoy]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:49 PM, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 28, 2009, at 10:41 AM, Student wrote:
>
>> I need to perform some work (shutdown mysql servers & delete their
>> data directories) at the end of my tests.  Naturally, I would like to
>> use at_exit.  HOWEVER, when I do, the spec file gets loaded twice (and
>> the tests are run twice).
>>
>> Help?
>
> For better or worse, RSpec uses at_exit, so you can't for this purpose.
>

Why not? Kernel#at_exit will just push procs onto a list of procs and
run them all when Ruby exits.

> What you _can_ do is add an after(:suite) block (typically in
> spec_helper.rb):
>
> Spec::Runner.configure do |config|
>  after(:suite) do
>    # shut stuff down here
>  end
> end
>
> HTH,
> David
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