[rspec-users] Passing parameters to Rspec scripts

[Matt Wynne]

One way would be to use an environment variable:

     $ CUSTOMER=foo spec spec

Then read out the customer name in your specs:

     login = ENV['CUSTOMER']

Otherwise, I would guess you might be able to look at ARGV from  
within, say, spec_helper.rb but I've never tried it.

On 3 Feb 2010, at 03:51, Levi Conley wrote:

> Newbie here.  I'm hoping someone can give me an outline of how to
> re-use rspec scripts by passing them parameters.
>
> The situation I have is testing a web application (using watir) for
> about 30 different customers.  Some of the customers have unique
> features in their particular application instance, but much of the
> codebase is shared (about 90%).  So what I need to be able to do is
> write rspec tests covering that shared codebase.  But I need to in
> some way pass in the customer name so that watir can log into the
> right application instance.
>
> Any help with this is greatly appreciated.  I still have much to learn
> about Rspec, but so far this seemingly simple task has me stumped.
>
> Thanks
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cheers,
Matt

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