[rspec-users] how to include module into shared example group in RSpec 2

[David Chelimsky]

On Jun 1, 2011, at 10:05 AM, Jarmo Pertman wrote:

> Thank you :)
> 
> Where can i see the differences between #it_should_behave_like,
> #include_context and #include_examples?

http://relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-core

> 
> Jarmo
> 
> On Jun 1, 5:42 pm, David Chelimsky <dchelim... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jun 1, 2011, at 9:10 AM, Jarmo Pertman wrote:
>> 
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>> 
>>> Hi!
>> 
>>> We tried to upgrade our RSpec from 1.3.1 to 2.6 and are having some
>>> problems. It seems that shared example group includes modules
>>> differently in RSpec 2.
>> 
>>> Consider the following code:
>>> module MyModule
>>>  def testing
>>>  end
>>> end
>> 
>>> shared_examples_for "shared" do
>>>  include MyModule
>> 
>>>  it "works" do
>>>    testing
>>>  end
>>> end
>> 
>>> describe "describe" do
>>>  it_should_behave_like "shared"
>> 
>>>  it "works too" do
>>>    testing
>>>  end
>>> end
>> 
>>> When running with RSpec 1.3.1 all specs are passing, but RSpec 2.6
>>> fails with one failure:
>>>  1) describe works too
>>>     Failure/Error: testing
>>>     NameError:
>>>       undefined local variable or method `testing' for
>>> #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1:0x47edee0 @example=nil>
>>>     # ./spec/blah/blah_spec.rb:18
>> 
>>> It seems that the describe block doesn't get the methods included from
>>> the module. How to solve that problem?
>> 
>> This has been through a bit of churn, but here is the short version:
>> 
>> it_should_behave_like creates (and wraps) a nested group, but there is are also two new include_context/include_examples methods. Your choices are:
>> 
>> describe "describe" do
>>   it_should_behave_like "shared" do
>>     it "works too" do
>>       testing
>>     end
>>   end
>> end
>> 
>> describe "describe" do
>>   include_context "shared"
>>   it "works too" do
>>     testing
>>   end
>> end
>> 
>> describe "describe" do
>>   include_examples "shared"
>>   it "works too" do
>>     testing
>>   end
>> end
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