[rspec-users] Evaluating shared example customisation block before shared block

[Ashley Moran]

On 1 Aug 2010, at 3:43 PM, David Chelimsky wrote:

> shared_examples_for "blah" do |a,b|
>  ...
> end
> 
> it_should_behave_like "blah", 1, 2
> 
> That wouldn't have worked with the old implementation, but it would work perfectly well now. This would also "just work" with hash-as-keyword-args:
> 
> shared_examples_for "blah" do |options|
>  it "blah #{options[:a]}" do
>    ..
>  end
> end
> 
> it_should_behave_like "blah", :a => 1
> 
> Now you can do this:
> 
> [1,2,3].each do |n|
>  it_should_behave_like "blah", :a => n
> end
> 
> And we can still use the customization block to define methods, hooks (before/after) and let(). Now it just feels like the rest of RSpec.
> 
> Thoughts?

One thought: me.facepalm :)

The only thing it lacks is a DSL to define the requirements.  Would it still be desirable to be able to write:

  shared_examples_for "blah" do |options|
    require_argument options[:a]
    it "blah #{options[:a]}" do
      ..
    end
  end

Or some such?

Also, after staring at this for a while, I'm puzzled by something.  In this code:

  it_should_behave_like "blah", :a => 1

how does :a => 1 get passed to the "options" block, as `shared_block` in the code is never called with arguments?  Would this need another code change?  (Apologies if I'm being thick, it's late and I should probably go to bed, but I wanted to review this first...)

Cheers
Ash

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