[rspec-users] accessing constants from another module within examples

[David Chelimsky]

On Jun 16, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Jarmo Pertman wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I wanted to include module into ExampleGroup to write less code within
> examples, but was unable to do so. This seems to be strange, because
> in regular Class it works and all methods within that module are also
> accessible. See the example:
> 
> module MyModule
>  MyConstant = 1
> 
>  def my_method
>    2
>  end
> end
> 
> describe "including modules" do
>  include MyModule
> 
>  it "works" do
>    my_method.should == 2
>    MyModule::MyConstant.should == 1
>  end
> 
>  it "doesn't work" do
>    MyConstant.should == 1
>  end
> end
> 
> Running this simple spec will produce one failure with this message:
> 1)
> NameError in 'including modules doesn't work'
> uninitialized constant MyConstant
> 
> Is this an expected behaviour? Is there some other way to access
> constants from another module without specifying module name within
> examples?

Seems like a bug. Please submit it to http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/issues for rspec-2, http://rspec.lighthouseapp.com to make sure it gets backported to rspec-1.

Thx,
David